Oct 11, 2023
Clatrotitan – Aussie Predatory Bug
Clatrotitan is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect, known from the Triassic of Australia. It is originally described from a species, Clatrotitan andersoni.
Known as King Israel's Mantidbug by the Conservationist Hunters of Indigenous Australians, but isn't real mantidfly, but a titanopteran in Triassic period enter either Late Cretaceous or Holocene epoch, the present day.
Physiology
Clatrotitan andersoni had a large forewing, which was 13.8 centimetres (5.4 in) long, with spiny points on elbows in three pairs of legs, long antennas, and ten segmented abdomen. Their wings have brownish black vertical lines on four wings, one was larger and one was small.
This drawing was made by Ognimdo2002