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  order Phasmida
suborder Verophasmatodea
infraorder Anareolatae

family Phasmatidae Gray, G.R. 1835

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Phasmidae)
• Distribution:
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• Citations (18):
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae. 1-48  
  • Kirby. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:393  
  • Key. 1960. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 17(6-8):235-240 >> Note: (Correction of Phasmidae) Gray, 1835. Plea for addition to Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology
  • Kevan. 1963. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 20(4):256 >> Note: Comment on Phasmatidae
  • China. 1964. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 21(6):420-421 >> Note: Placed on Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology. Opinion 716  
  • Clark. 1975. Entomologist’s Rec. J. Var. 87:105 >> Note: Key, to subfamilies
  • Bradley & Galil. 1977. Proceedings of the Entomological Society, Washington 79(2):186 >> Note: Key, to subfamilies
  • Piza. 1978. Miscelanea Inst. M. Lillo 64:31 >> Note: Key, to subfamilies
  • Kevan. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and classification of living organisms 2:383
  • Arnett. 1985. American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. First edition. 115
  • Rentz. 1996. Grasshopper country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. Orthoptera; grasshoppers, katydids, crickets. Blattodea; cockroaches. Mantodea; mantids. Phasmatodea; stick insects. 254  
  • Seow-Choen. 1997. A guide to the stick and leaf insects of Singapore 113
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. Phasmatodea. In Zoological Catalog of Australia 23:376
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 365 >> Note: Key to subfamilies
  • Brock. 2003. In Gale Research Staff. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 221
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 31  
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Revision of Oriental Phasmatodea: The tribe Pharnaciini Günther, 1953, including the description of the world's longest insect, and a survey of the family Phasmatidae Gray, 1835 with keys to the subfamilies and tribes (Phasmatodea: "Anareolatae": Phasmatidae) 1906:17 >> Note: = Lanceocercata of Bradler 2001  
  • Bradler. 2009. Die Phylogenie der Stab- und Gespentschrecken (Insecta: Phasmatodea). Vol 2.1 Species, Phylogeny and Evolution 3 >> Note: The families Bacillidae, Heteronemiidae (= Diapheromeridae), Phasmatidae and Pseudophasmatidae...are polyphyletic  
• Type genus:  Phasma Lichtenstein, 1796; priority for family-group names based on Phasma dates from Phasmatidae Gray, G.R., 1835.  First use as Phasmatidae by Gray, G.R., 1835.

• synonym Lanceocercata
• synonym Phasmidae Gray, G.R. 1835
• subfamily Cladomorphinae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Bacterinae
• synonym Cladomorphidae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Phibalosomini Redtenbacher 1908
• tribe Baculini Günther 1953
• tribe Cladomorphini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Cladoxerini Karny 1923
• tribe Cranidiini Günther 1953
• subfamily Clitumninae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Clitumnini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Medaurini
• tribe Pharnaciini Günther 1953
• subfamily Eurycanthinae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Eurycanthae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Eurycanthini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• genus Papuacocelus Hennemann & Conle, 2006
• subfamily Extatosomatinae Sellick 1997
• tribe Extatosomatini Sellick 1997
• subfamily Lonchodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Lonchodidae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Prisomerinae Karny 1923
• tribe Lonchodini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Neohiraseini Hennemann & Conle 2008
• subfamily Phasmatinae Gray, G.R. 1835
• synonym Acrophyllini Redtenbacher 1908
• synonym Phasminae Gray, G.R. 1835
• tribe Acanthomimini Günther 1953
• tribe Acanthoxylini Bradley & Galil 1977
• tribe Phasmatini Gray, G.R. 1835
• subfamily Platycraninae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Platycranini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• subfamily Tropidoderinae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• synonym Tropidoderi Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Gigantophasmatini Hennemann & Conle 2008
• tribe Monandropterini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• tribe Tropidoderini Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893
• genus Didymuria Kirby, 1904
• subfamily Xeroderinae Günther 1953
• tribe Xeroderini Günther 1953
• tribe Achriopterini Günther 1953
• genus Achrioptera Coquerel, 1861
• genus Glawiana Hennemann & Conle, 2004
• tribe Stephanacridini Günther 1953
• genus Diagoras Stål, 1877
• genus Eucarcharus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
• genus Hermarchus Stål, 1875
• genus Macrophasma Hennemann & Conle, 2006
• genus Nesiophasma Günther, 1934
• genus Phasmotaenia Navas, 1907
• genus Sadyattes Stål, 1875
• genus Stephanacris Redtenbacher, 1908
• genus Monoiognosis Cliquennois & Brock, 2004
• species bipunctata Cliquennois & Brock, 2004
• species spinosa Cliquennois & Brock, 2004
• genus Spathomorpha Cliquennois, 2005
• species adefa Cliquennois, 2005
• species lancettifer (Brancsik, 1893)

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