
Pseudocreobotra ocellata juvenile
This mantis is known as the African flower mantis, it is impressive and have a great camouflage against flowers of the same colours were you find them lurking to hunt some food.
This picture was taken in the backyard of a friend in Gabon. It was very windy and it was cloudy and I was so excited I did not took care of the camera settings and was shooting like crazy, I don't know how I manage to shoot this, pure luck !
"Pseudocreobotra ocellata", known as the African flower mantis or as the spiny flower mantis, is a Flower Mantis 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.