Id my mantis please

[PeterEde]

My first real decent look at it

It came as a hitchhiker

 

[blaxsun]

"Sump mantis"?

 

[PeterEde]

"Sump mantis"?

Not yet

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Yup its a mantis...
Lol
D

 

[PeterEde]

Yup its a mantis...yeah I knew it
Lol
D

 

[blaxsun]

Not yet

Just so you know that it's already plotting to kill you...

 

[PeterEde]

Just so you know that it's already plotting to kill you...

I'm expecting to get speared by it at some point

 

[Hadla]

If you can tell it’s a spearer, it’s a ciliata! They have a checkerboard looking pattern in their eyes that’s a dead giveaway I love them!

p_ciliata

ucmp.berkeley.edu

 

[PeterEde]

If you can tell it’s a spearer, it’s a ciliata! They have a checkerboard looking pattern in their eyes that’s a dead giveaway I love them!

p_ciliata

ucmp.berkeley.edu

I think it's a hammer.
I had an id previously when it looked mostly black. Obviously this one's not black.
I may have 2

 

[Hadla]

Ciliatas have a range of colors. Didn’t look like it had smashers to me but you’re able to see it up close so idk

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Ciliatas have a range of colors. Didn’t look like it had smashers to me but you’re able to see it up close so idk

I have to agree with Hadla - you get a decent view of its arm at 4 seconds into your video, and the the tip looks too pointed to be a smasher to me (the tip of the smasher mantis "hand" typically looks like a cartoon bone or a reflex hammer used by doctors). So, my guess is that it's a spearer type, but, like Hadla also said, you've got a better view of it than we do, so you might be seeing something that we don't on it.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I thought I saw a green hammer indicative of a smasher. Then again, it was a bit blurry on my screen. Either way they are cool. Your has some nice purple and green contracting there in colors. Very pretty.
I do not know species though. Sorry.

 

[PeterEde]

I thought I saw a green hammer indicative of a smasher. Then again, it was a bit blurry on my screen. Either way they are cool. Your has some nice purple and green contracting there in colors. Very pretty.
I do not know species though. Sorry.

It's a bit blurry. the camera would not focus on the mantis, just the rock surrounding

 

[DeniseAndy]

I could never get any good footage of mine. Yours is 10x better than any I got.

 

[PeterEde]

I could never get any good footage of mine. Yours is 10x better than any I got.

If it's just one it was previously identified as a small mantis that would not grow much bigger than it is. Do they change colour

Here's a prior video of feeding. This one looked more gray with black or white specks


Eyes different?

 

[Tamberav]

They do change color but I can't tell if it is the same or if you have two.

 

[PeterEde]

Previously identified as a Haptosquilla
If it's the same Mantis

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like a wennerae mantis

 

[PeterEde]

I thought I saw a green hammer indicative of a smasher. Then again, it was a bit blurry on my screen. Either way they are cool. Your has some nice purple and green contracting there in colors. Very pretty.
I do not know species though. Sorry.

See latest. Definitely a hammer.

 

[PeterEde]

Not sure what it was doing. Looked like another tail. Maybe a molt it was playing with or do they eat their molt. I've not seen a mantis molt in 5 months