Brown Ghost Mantis Female

This listing is for a BROWN ghost mantis FEMALE. Size is around 5th instar, give or take. Shade of brown varies. Currently feeding on house fly sized prey.

Phyllocrania paradoxa, a scientific name almost as cool as their worldwide common name “ghost mantis”. These are really a kind of flower mantis disguised as a deadleaf mantis. If that isn’t confusing enough, they blend all the traits of all other popular hobby mantises with their flanged legs, wide shield-like pronotum (behind their heads), crowned/crested heads, leafy flanging on either side of the abdomen and cryptic, dead leaf coloration.

They are renowned for being one of the only mantises that can be kept communally with little risk of cannibalization.