Mantophasmatodea resembles a cross between a stick insect, a mantid and a grasshopper. It differs from a stick insect because its first body segment is the largest. Unlike a mantid, it uses both its fore and mid legs to catch prey, and unlike a grasshopper, it can’t jump. Growing up to four centimeters long these insects are carnivorous and nocturnal. It lives at the base of tussock vegetation that grow in rock crevices.