Copy of the original description of several species of mantis including Gongylus gongylodes, described by Carl Linnaeus as Gryllus (Mantis) gongylodes in 1758.
Gongylus gongylodes, also known as the wandering violin mantis, ornate mantis, or Indian rose mantis, is a species of praying mantis in the family Empusidae. Characterized by extremely slender limbs with large appendages, it is not a particularly aggressive species[citation needed] and often kept as a pet. The mantis is especially known for swaying its body back and forth to imitate a stick flowing in the wind.[1]
It primarily feeds on flying insects. Its native range is in southern India and Sri Lanka.[citation needed] It can reach up to 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The males of the species are capable of flight. They are a communal species, in that they are able to live and breed in large groups, without unnecessary cannibalism.[citation needed]
Adult females are about 10cm (3 in) and adult males are about 9 cm.[citation needed]
Its specific name gongylodes means "roundish" in Greek,[2] from the same word as its generic epithet Gongylus.
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^Stearn, William Thomas (1983). Botanical Latin. 275. David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8548-7. gongylodes / gongyloides: roundish
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