BANDED MANTIS
Theopropus elegans
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To the left you can see how  differnt two Banded Mantis females can be. Sometimes they change their colour. It may take just a week for a red individual to become green-and-yellow. Sometimes you get both colour forms among  mantises hatched from one ootheca and reared under the same conditions.

Above is the small Banded Mantis male
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1st instar nymph

7th instar female nymph
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