Mantis ID help

[Latte]

Hey guys, just found this little guy. He was on wild Australian coral. Any help IDing? He's a smasher. I couldn't find one that looked suitably like him in the stickied link. He is mostly brown/grey but has green accents on his tail/bottom of his legs.

 

[Latte]

I could see possibly Gonodactylaceus ternatensis, Gonodactylus smithii or Pseudosquillisma guttata (though this one is a spearer, and I can hear the hammers cracking as he punches everything haha) but I'm really not sure.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey guys, just found this little guy. He was on wild Australian coral. Any help IDing? He's a smasher. I couldn't find one that looked suitably like him in the stickied link. He is mostly brown/grey but has green accents on his tail/bottom of his legs.

Looks like purple spot mantis

 

[Latte]

Looks like purple spot mantis

Oh awesome! So he'll only grow to about 9cm, that's perfect! Thanks for your help

 

[Hadla]

It’s easier to id if you can get a pic from the front

 

[nmotz]

That is almost certainly a G. graphurus. Very common in Australia.

 

[Latte]

That is almost certainly a G. graphurus. Very common in Australia.

Thanks for this comment, I actually think this is correct rather than smithii I previously thought