Need help IDing

[Heffer101]

So i have a mantis. After finding Mr. Caldwell's site full of the mantis species, i can't find the one i have (right now i'm hoping to have one thats not found yet, but probably not ). So hes about 2-3 inches and a maroon colour. He has orange tips on his( i think its a he) legs, and he has kind of a teal-ish colour on the raps (its on the kind of elbow) Heres a pic of him sticking himself out on the rock i just bought.

 

[DanInSD]

The white balance is so far off it's hard to see anything definitively, but he looks an awful lot like my Neogonodactylus wennerae.

 

[justinl]

Id agree that it sounds like N. wennerae but better pics would

 

[Heffer101]

aight i'll try, but he doesn't come out of his rock that often . Also i looked up what the n. we..wutever it is on google, and they don't look anything lke the one i have.

 

[rwhhunt]

check them out on Dr Roy's site, the wenneraes are very color morphic, and come from florida so are very common in the southeast...

 

[rwhhunt]

I also just noticed the white meral spot on the inside of its raptorial appendage, which is indicative of a N. Wenn...

 

[DanInSD]

The "white" meral spot was one of the primary criteria of my original ID, but given the white balance, it was too hard to say if it was really "white".

 

[Heffer101]

Where is this "meral" spot? i don't see anyn white spot

 

[justinl]

the raptorial appaendages are often referred to here as the dactyls. The meral spots are on the inner side of each dactyl.

 

[Heffer101]

ooh...thanks, when i get a chance i'll take a look and see if there are any meral spots.

 

[Ms. K]

There will be a meral spot. The color of the meral spot is a key identifying characteristic.

 

[Heffer101]

I just saw that my mantis has a tealish colour on the bottom where his pleopods are, his antennal scales, antenna and antennules are an orange colour, pereiopods are orange