Schizocephala

Schizocephala
Illustration (lower left)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mantodea
Family:	Eremiaphilidae
Subfamily:	Iridinae
Tribe:	Schizocephalini
Genus:	Schizocephala Serville, 1831 [1]
Species:	S. bicornis
Binomial name
Schizocephala bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Gryllus bicornisLinnaeus, 1758 Schizocephala oculataFabricius, 1781 Schizocephala strictaOlivier, 1792

Schizocephala is a genus of praying mantises in the monotypic tribe Schizocephalini. It is represented by a single species, Schizocephala bicornis. ^[2] It is distributed across Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Sunda Islands. ^[3]

Gallery

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  Schizocephala bicornis at Bangalore
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  Indian Stick Mantis closeup
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  Indian Stick Mantis Size
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  Original description by Carl Linnaeus

References

1. Serville, J. G. A.-S. (1831). "Revue méthodique des insectes de l'ordre des Orthoptères". Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 22 (86): 28–65, 134–167, 262–292.
2. "species Schizocephala bicornis Linne, 1758: Mantodea Species File". mantodea.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
3. Mukherjee, Tushar Kanti; Iyer, Geetha; Chatterjee, Parbati (2017-02-26). "Twenty-three new records of mantodea (Insecta) from some states of India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 9 (2): 9829–9839. doi: 10.11609/jott.1936.9.2.9829-9839 . ISSN   0974-7907.