I’m not really sure what this is, but its awesome, and I love it.

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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. The large brown mantis has a few subspecies, and one of them is the stick mantis ghost from Bundabergs Turtle Sands. The stick mantis ghosts are not as aggressive as the original species but have a defense display used to make the mantis appear larger by flinging its front legs into the air and putting its head down along with its antennae. Large brown mantids are light brown with short winged female and a long winged male. The subspecies from Bundaberg is a pale cream white with a yellow and black eye in between the arms (one and a half times the size of the original species). The large brown mantis female is called “short winged”—the pair of wings reach only half her abdomen and she is not able to fly—but the long winged male has wings that cover the entire abdomen. The wings have four sets of wings and wing covers. The top set are the covers and the bottom wings enable the mantis to fly.

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Monochamus
Monochamus galloprovincialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Suborder: Polyphaga Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea Family: Cerambycidae Subfamily: Lamiinae Genus: Monochamus Megerle in Dejean, 1821 [1]

M. sartor

M. sutor

Monochamus is a genus of longhorn beetles that are found throughout the world. They are often known as sawyer beetles, as their larvae bore into dead or dying trees, or bark beetles^[2]. They are often found in pine or evergreen trees. Some species are know to transmit the nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, which is the cause of pine wilt disease^[3].

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Devil’s Flower Mantis
Idolomantis diabolica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mantodea Family: Empusidae Genus: Idolomantis Species: I. diabolica
Binomial name
Idolomantis diabolica Beier, 1956

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Apparently there isn’t much information about them but they are beautiful.

Here are some pictures.

Devil's Flower Mantis

Defense Pose

Another Defense Pose