sexing a peacock

[chameloman72]

how do you determine the sex of a peacock mantis??

 

[Pea-brain]

on page 2 there is a thread by Gonodactylus titled "sexing a male O. havenensis" which you can see the sex organs. if you can't see those it is probably a female.

Dan

 

[Thurge]

There is also a sticky at the top of the forum about sexing stomatopods.

 

[chameloman72]

I'm not seeing that sticky??

 

[Thurge]

5th one down.
Stomatopod sex pictures (again)

 

[Ms. K]

Also, females tend to be more drab in color (olive) whereas mature males are usually brighter green (emerald), but that's not always reliable.

Your best bet is to get your peacock to come up out of the burrow, perhaps to claim food, and take a look at that belly. If you see the little "sticks" pointing inward...male. If not...female.