Biology:Phasmatini

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Short description: Tribe of stick insects

Phasmatini
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Ctenomorpha chronus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Subfamily: Phasmatinae
Tribe: Phasmatini
Leach, 1815

Phasmatini[1] 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

  1. Leach (1815) In Brewster, D. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia 9: 119.
  2. Brock, Paul D.; Otte, Daniel (2019). "tribe Phasmatini Leach, 1815". http://Phasmida.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1201299. Retrieved 2019-07-02. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q21223515 entry