Archimantis latistyla

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Large brown mantis

Archimantis latistyla underneath a carrot flower

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Mantidae
Genus:	Archimantis
Species:	A. latistyla

Binomial name

Archimantis latistyla
(Serville, 1838)

Archimantis latistyla, commonly known as the large brown mantis (also known as the stick mantis or Australian mantis) is a species of mantid native to Australia.

1 The Australian mantis
2 The large brown mantis
3 History
4 Behaviour
5 Keeping a large brown mantid
6 Sub-species
7 Reproduction
- 7.1 Reproductive cycle
8 Identification
9 scientific clases
10 Things to avoid
11 External links
12 Sources
13 See also

[edit] The Australian mantis

(large brown mantis) (stick mantis) Archimantis latistyla

[edit] The large brown mantis

The large brown mantids are a quite aggressive when adult and can be known to attack more larger prey than other predatory animals. The animals seen eaten include some small birds, rarely seen eating fish, frogs lizards and more. The Large brown mantids are a cannibals and are known to attack Humans if disturbed.

[edit] History

The word Mantis means Prophet (praying mantis)and it has a supernatural being mainly having a long slender thorax and an abdomen.

[edit] Behaviour

large brown mantids are quite aggressive when fully grown and can attack if not handeled properly. They can also jump about a meter from perched spot to escape enemies.

Name	Botantic	Common
Australian	Archimantis	Large brown
Mantid	Latistyla	Mantid

[edit] Keeping a large brown mantid

The large brown mantid is not suitable for a begginer and are highly recomended to some one with a better IQ on the stick mantis. For keeping them is a tricky but pleasing experience because the female is Parthenogenic meaning the female can produce an ootheca with out the males help (only females are produced).

A stick mantis ghost in defense pose.

Archimantis Monstrosa, to find more details look for A. monstrosa in the "Sources" listed bellow

[edit] Sub-species

The large brown mantis has a few sub species, and one of them is the stick mantis ghost from Bundabergs Turtle Sands. The stick Mantis gohst are not as aggresive as the original species but has an awsome defence tactic, The scare! The scare is a defence tactic used to make the ghost like stick mantis bigger and to scare the attacker away by flinging his arms into the air and putting her head down along with her antenna.

[edit] Reproduction

The Male stick mantis is smaller than the female and are about 99mm long and can fly, the females can not fly and are 110mm long. The Reproduction is when the male injects a single sperm at a time and can last up to half an hour.

[edit] Reproductive cycle

When the Male stick mantis is mating, he ajaculates the female with a minature penis which is then inserted into a tiny opening at the end of the females behind bits. The Males of the stick insects clip there abdomen to the females egg holding compartment and then the male inserts the single sperm, at a time.

[edit] Identification

Large Brown Mantids are light brown with short winged female and a long winged male*(footnote), the sub species from bundaberg is a pale cream white with a yellow and black eye in between the arms (1 and a half times the size of the original species).

[edit] scientific clases

Classification of the large brown mantis

- - Kingdom: Animalia
    - - Phylum: Arthropoda
        
        Class: Insecta
        
        Order: Mantodea
        
        Family: Mantidae
        
        Genus: Archimantis
        
        Species: Latistyla
        
        Bionominal name: Archimantis Latistyla

[edit] Things to avoid

- Never release 2 females in the cage.
- Never over bloat your female or else disembowlment.
- Never use fly spray around Praying Mantids.
- Never have mantids in together.
- Never have a wide distributed Ootheca in your enclosure.

(footnote)*Long winged and short winged is the way some species of Mantids develope. The large brown mantis female has what you call "short winged" meaning that the pair of wings reach only half her abdomen and is not able to fly, but the long winged male meaning that the wings go full way over the top of the abdomen. The wings have 4 sets of wings and wing covers the top set are the covers and the bottum are the ones that actually fly.