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African Spiny Flower Mantis
Pseudocreobotra ocellata
Pseudocreobotra ocellata, known as the African flower mantis or (with other species) as the spiny flower mantis, is a Flower Mantis (1.5 inches or 38 millimetres) native to Africa, ranging from Angola and South Africa in the south to Uganda in the east and Senegal in the west. It was described by the French naturalist Palisot de Beauvois in 1805.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 196739.