Paraoxypilus sp.

Taxobox
name = "Boxer Bark Mantis"


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image_caption = "Boxer bark mantis" showing red warning clours
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
superordo = Dictyoptera
ordo = Mantodea
familia = Mantidae
genus = "Paraoxypilus"
species = Sp.
binomial = "Paraoxypilus sp."
binomial_authority =

"Paraoxypilus" is also known as the Boxer Bark Mantis

Boxer bark mantis

Family-"Amorphoscelidae"

Boxer bark mantis only reaching 2-3cm (about 1") as well as nymphs at a tiny size of only 3mm (about 1/8").

This species gets its name from the unusual way it acts like a boxer and it really does look like one too.

Description

"Boxer bark mantids" come in black with hints of grey and white, its size makes it mimic an ant with the "ant" like abdomen and small bumpy thorax.

Taxonomy

There are(is) one "Sub" species described:
* Gyromantis kraussi

Sub species

There only one species described at presesnt.

Behaviour

This breed mimics an ant to avoid predators and is the MASTER of camouflage.

Captive breeding and rearing

This species is hard to breed and to raise by the size described at present.