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False Garden Mantis

Pseudomantis albofimbriata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) liahg, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 745, February 771, March 1,263, April 907, May 441, June 187, July 56, August 29, September 70, October 185, November 290, December 441.
Australia5,385
Victoria3,218
New South Wales1,282
Queensland611
Australian Capital Territory223
Tasmania27
Western Australia12
South Australia9
Other Territories3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

  • SymbioticLives in close mutualistic relationship with another organismFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderMantises · Mantodea
FamilyMantids · Mantidae
GenusPseudomantis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise False Garden Mantis with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.