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family Anisacanthidae Günther, 1953

• Distribution:
  •  Madagascar
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (9):
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 18, 240   >> Note: elevated to Family
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 27  
  • Cliquennois. 2007. Le Bulletin d'Arthropoda 32:7   >> Note: introduction to Madagascan spp
  • Cliquennois. 2008. Ann. Soc. entomol. Fr. n.s. 44(1):60   >> Note: revision, subdivided into three subfamilies; key to subfamilies
  • Zompro. 2009. Arthropoda 17(1):18  
  • Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler. 2018. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:4   >> Note: Phylogeny and tarsal morphology
  • Cliquennois. 2020. In Aberlenc [Ed.]. Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1:414, 418   >> Note: in superfamily Anisacanthoidea
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 25  
  • Cliquennois & Bradler. 2022. In Goodman & et al. [Ed.]. The New Natural History of Madagascar 1189, 1200 >> Note: hypothesis - in superfamily Anisacanthoidea
• Type genus:  Anisacantha Redtenbacher, 1906; priority for family-group names based on Anisacantha dates from Anisacanthini Günther, 1953.  First use as Anisacanthidae by Zompro, 2004.

• synonym Anisacanthini Günther, 1953
• subfamily Anisacanthinae Günther, 1953
• tribe Anisacanthini Günther, 1953
• subfamily Leiophasmatinae Cliquennois, 2008
• genus Adelophasma Cliquennois, 2018
• genus Amphiphasma Cliquennois, 2008
• genus Leiophasma Uvarov, 1940
• subfamily Xerantherinae Cliquennois, 2008
• genus Archantherix Cliquennois, 2008
• genus Cenantherix Cliquennois, 2008
• genus Parorobia Chopard, 1952
• genus Xerantherix Brancsik, 1893

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