My Mantis aka Murderbug aka Master of Bugs

[steveschuerger]

Hey there. Finally got some decent pics of my Mantis that’s been living in the display since being brought in as a hitchhiker last November. Aside from taking out snails here and there has behaved itself , so I’ve kept it in there. Its main food is the frozen that I broadcast for the fish and lps.

 

[Stomatopods17]

N. Wennerae or N. Bredini

Depends where you got the rock from. If its from TBS its N. Wennerae.

 

[steveschuerger]

N. Wennerae or N. Bredini

Depends where you got the rock from. If its from TBS its N. Wennerae.

Gulf Live Rock rock

 

[Stomatopods17]

N. Wennerae then.

There is visually no way to tell between N. Wennerae or N. Bredini, just genetically different species.

The only way to really ID them apart is the source location as N. Wennerae is found north of puerto rico and N. Bredini is south, both are common respective hitchhikers from those regions.

 

[Hadla]

If you can get pics with white light, it would help! Seeing the color of the meral spots would narrow it down

Oh wait I can see white in the first pic so yeah must be a wennerae since bredini is found in the Caribbean

 

[Hadla]

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropod...costraca/royslist/species.php?name=n_wennerae Here’s the best info on it!

 

[steveschuerger]

Here’s a short video I took a few month back of the feller