Gongylus trachelophyllus is a praying mantis in the family Empusidae which is characterized by extremely slender limbs with large appendages.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mantodea |
| Family: | Empusidae |
| Genus: | Gongylus |
| Species: | G. trachelophyllus
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| Binomial name | |
| Gongylus trachelophyllus (Burmeister, 1838)
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Range
editThey are found in the Chota Nagpur Plateau region covering Bihar and Odisha states of India.[1][2]
Etymology
editIts generic name Gongylus means "roundish" in Greek.[3]
References
edit- ^ Texas A&M University
- ^ P. M. Sureshan (2009). "A Preliminary Study on the Mantid Fauna (Insecta: Mantodea) of Orissa, India" (PDF). Records of the Zoological Survey of India - Occasional Paper. 305. Director, Zoological Survey of India: 1–56. ISBN 978-81-8171-239-4. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ Stearn, William Thomas (1983). Botanical Latin. 275. David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8548-7.
gongylodes / gongyloides: roundish
External links
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