Biology:Schizocephala
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Short description: Genus of praying mantises
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Eremiaphilidae |
| Subfamily: | Iridinae |
| Tribe: | Schizocephalini |
| Genus: | Schizocephala Serville, 1831[1] |
| Species: | S. bicornis
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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
Schizocephala bicornis at Bangalore
Indian Stick Mantis closeup
Indian Stick Mantis Size
Original description by Carl Linnaeus
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "species Schizocephala bicornis Linne, 1758: Mantodea Species File". http://mantodea.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1184818.
- ↑ Mukherjee, Tushar Kanti; Iyer, Geetha; Chatterjee, Parbati (2017-02-26). "Twenty-three new records of mantodea (Insecta) from some states of India" (in en). Journal of Threatened Taxa 9 (2): 9829–9839. doi:10.11609/jott.1936.9.2.9829-9839. ISSN 0974-7907.
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