Giant devil’s flower mantis
The body shape and colouring of this mantis resembles that of a plant or flower. This enables the mantis to hide in vegetation where it waits to capture flies and other passing insects using its large, barbed forelegs.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 10/1935/7
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- East Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Buckler, Mr William
- Common Name
- giant devil’s flower mantis
- Simple Name
- insect
