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Phasmatini

Phasmatini is a tribe of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. There are more than 40 described species, found in Australasia, and Asia.

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Phasmatini
Ctenomorpha marginipennis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Subfamily: Phasmatinae
Tribe: Phasmatini
Leach, 1815

Phasmatini1 is a tribe of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. There are more than 40 described species, found in Australasia, and Asia.2

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Phasmatini:

  • Acrophylla Gray, 1835
  • Anchiale Stål, 1875
  • Cigarrophasma Brock & Hasenpusch, 2001 (monotypic Cigarrophasma tessellatum)
  • Ctenomorpha Gray, 1833
  • Dryococelus Gurney, 1947 (monotypic)
  • Eurycnema Serville, 1838
  • Onchestus Stål, 1877
  • Paractenomorpha Hennemann & Conle, 2004 (monotypic Paractenomorpha baehri)
  • Paracyphocrania Redtenbacher, 1908
  • Paronchestus Redtenbacher, 1908
  • Peloriana Uvarov, 1940 (monotypic Peloriana lobiceps)
  • Phasma Lichtenstein, 1796
References

References

  1. Leach (1815) In Brewster, D. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia 9: 119.
  2. Brock, Paul D.; Otte, Daniel (2019). "tribe Phasmatini Leach, 1815". Phasmida species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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