Gongylus gongylodes

Linne, 1758 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Mantodea/Empusidae/Gongylus

At a glance

Occurrence records538

Data sources7

Biological traits0

DNA specimens5

eDNA detections4

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Gongylus gongylodes's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation2 languages↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility538 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics5 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Occurrence & distributionGBIF538 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries4 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD5 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT2n = 28

01Narrative

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 and often kept as a pet, by hobbyists. The mantis is especially known for swaying its body back and forth to imitate a stick flowing in the wind.French, Jess. Minibeasts with Jess French: Masses of Mindblowing Minibeast Facts! Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2018. It primarily feeds on flying insects. Its native range is in southern India and Sri Lanka. It can reach up to 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. Its specific name gongylodes means "roundish" in Greek, from the same word as its generic epithet Gongylus.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

No structured trait data for this taxon yet.

05DNA & barcoding5 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Gongylus gongylodes has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens5

Marker genes2

eDNA detections4

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P18S-5P

animal barcoderibosomal

06Genome at a glanceGoaT

The complete instruction manual Gongylus gongylodes carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 28 n = 14

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 272×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database

GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database — ↗

2n 281×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database

GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database — ↗

07Deep time~32 Ma lineage

How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.

At a glance

DNA clock origin32 Ma TimeTree

When this lineage existed

How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.

DNA clock origin

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type538 records

Wild obs. + sensor537

Museum / vouchered1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 636 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy67% within 1 km

≤100 m 136≤1 km 131≤10 km 84>10 km 50

401 georeferenced · 136 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor537

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

>10 km 1

1 georeferenced

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions1 of 1 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	1

1 institutions · 1 of 1 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA4 detections

Where the DNA of Gongylus gongylodes was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found4

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 4 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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