Found throughout Australia, it is common in the eastern regions.

[3] The purple-winged mantis has varied diet consisting mainly of other insects, however, they have been seen eating much larger animals such as small frogs, lizards etc.

Tenodera australasiae can be cannibalistic but not quite an aggressive mantis.

[citation needed] This was one of two mantis species in which binocular stereopsis was first shown in an insect.

[4] The genus Tenodera has a number of species including: