Ghost Mantis Male Subadult

This listing is for a ghost mantis MALE nymph, where nymph means it is immature. Available as subadult males, currently feeding on house flies or similar sized prey. Subadult male here means they have 1 more molt to maturity, maybe 2 at the most. This is an opportunity for breeders with a female.

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 dead leaf 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.