Oligonicella is a wide-ranging genus of mantises in the family Thespidae. It is represented in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Oligonicella
Oligonicella bolliana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mantodea
Family: Thespidae
Subtribe: Oligonychina
Genus: Oligonicella
Giglio-Tos, 1915[1]
Species

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Species edit

Species in the genus include:[2]

  1. O. bolliana
  2. O. brunneri — Europe.
  3. O. punctulata
  4. O. scudderi — North America. - type species (as Oligonicella scudderi Saussure)
  5. O. striolata
  6. O. tessellata

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Giglio-Tos (1915) Bull. Soc. ent. Ital. 46: 190.
  2. ^ [1] Tree of Life Web Project (2005), Species list from Ehrmann (2002).