Taxonomic Review of the Genus Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 (Mantodea: Eremiaphilidae) with description of a new species from India Author Kamila, A. P. 0000-0003-2159-2888 Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala, India- 673006 & University of Calicut, Thenhipalam, Malappuram, Kerala, India- 673635 kamiii619@gmail.com Author Sureshan, P. M. 0000-0003-4722-6368 Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala, India- 673006 pmsuresh43@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-09-18 5512 1 53 66 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.1.4 1175-5326 13848391 49BF8920-C4C2-410C-B279-A11316A184EF Genus Didymocorypha Wood-Mason, 1877 Schizocephalus (Didymocorypha) : Wood-Mason, 1877: 221 . Pyrgocotis : Stål, 1877: 14 ; Westwood, 1889: 3 ; Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893: 59 ; Kirby, 1904: 218 ; Giglio-Tos 1921: 31 . Didymocorypha : Wood-Mason, 1882: 24 ; Westwood, 1889: 3 ; Wood-Mason, 1889: 34 ; Brunner de Wattenwyl, 1893: 59 ; Bolivar, 1897: 303 ; Kirby, 1904: 218 ; Giglio-Tos, 1919: 57 ; Giglio-Tos, 1921: 31 ; Giglio-Tos, 1927: 116 ; Beier, 1935: 5 ; Beier, 1964: 942 ; Beier, 1968: 8 ; Mukherjee et al ., 1995: 235 ; Ehrmann, 2002: 122 ; Otte & Spearman, 2005: 328 ; Ghate et al ., 2012: 442 ; Mukherjee et al ., 2014: 15 ; Ehrmann & Borer, 2015: 231 ; Patel et al ., 2016 : 20259 ; Schwarz & Roy, 2019: 115 , 143; Wu & Liu, 2020: 53 ; Kamila & Sureshan, 2022: 17 ; Kamila & Sureshan, 2023: 67 . Type species : Schizocephalus ( Didymocorypha ) ensifera Wood-Mason, 1877 . Diagnosis: Small, slender, dry grass-like yellowish brown body. Females larger than males. Compound eyes oblong. Head elongated like a lance due to prolongation of the juxta-ocular lobes of vertex with a median suture along the entire length. Lower frons trapezoid. Pronotum slender, with weak supra-coxal dilation and almost parallel lateral margins. Fore femur with 4 posteroventral and 4 discoidal spines. Fore tibia with 5‒6 posteroventral spines. Meso- and metathoracic legs long, simple, with a genicular spine. Males mesopterous or apterous, females apterous. If winged, then both wings hyaline. Distribution: India , China , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Thailand ( Fig. 34 ). Species currently included: 1. D. lanceolata ( Fabricius, 1798 ) 2. D. libaii Wu & Liu, 2020 3. D. wayanadensis Kamila & Sureshan sp. nov. Key to Didymocorypha species 1. Cerci short, rectangular-shaped, little longer than wide ( Figs. 7 , 15, 16 , 28 ).................... D. wayanadensis sp. nov. - Cerci very long, lance-shaped, more than 8 times longer than wide ( Figs. 23 , 27 )................................... 2 2. Male apterous; ocelli of male indistinct; body densely covered with black patches and spots.................... D. libaii - Male mesopterous ( Fig. 18b ); ocelli of male distinct ( Fig. 20 ); body sometimes with few black spots......... D. lanceolata