Euphasmatodea

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Euphasmatodea
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
Malaysische Gespensterschrecke.jpg
Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
(unranked):
Magnorder:
Superorder: Orthopterida
Order: Phasmatodea
Suborder: Euphasmatodea
Cliquennois, 2020?
Superfamilies

Aschiphasmatoidea
Bacilloidea
Phyllioidea
Pseudophasmatoidea
3 families incertae sedis

Synonyms

Verophasmatodea Zompro, 2004

The Euphasmatodea,[1][2] also known by its junior synonym Verophasmatodea is a suborder of the Phasmatodea, which contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects.

Superfamilies and families[]

The suborder was divided into two infraorders: the Areolatae and Anareolatae, based on the presence or absence of an "areola": the of a small ring of colour or gap in wing margin - see the Glossary of entomology terms. This division has now been superseded with the "suborder Agathemerodea ... downgraded and Areolatae/Anareolatae divisions removed, leaving the existing four superfamilies in Euphasmatodea".[1]

Aschiphasmatoidea[]

Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

  • †[3]
  • Aschiphasmatidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Tropical Southeast Asia)
  • Damasippoididae - Zompro, 2004 (Madagascar)
  • Prisopodidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Central and South America, south Africa, India, Indo-China, Malesia)

Bacilloidea[]

Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Phyllioidea[]

Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

  • Phylliidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Australasia, Asia, Pacific)

Pseudophasmatoidea[]

Auth. Rehn, 1904; especially Americas, Madagascar, Asia, Australasia, Europe

Infraorder Anareolatae[]

The following three families were previously placed in the "Anareolatae", but are currently (2021) considered incertae sedis.

  • Diapheromeridae - Kirby, 1904 - Worldwide distribution (except the Antarctic)
  • Lonchodidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893[4][5] - Worldwide, but especially southern Africa, Asia & Australia
  • Phasmatidae - Gray, 1835 - Asia, Australasia, Americas (especially South), Pacific, Africa

References[]

  1. ^ a b Phasmida Species File: suborder Euphasmatodea (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 27 May 2021)
  2. ^ Cliquennois (2020) In Aberlenc [Ed.]: Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1: 414.
  3. ^ Zompro, O. 2001. The Phasmatodea and Raptophasma n. gen., Orthoptera incertae sedis, in Baltic amber (Insecta: Orthoptera). Mitteilungen des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institutes der Universität Hamburg 85: 229–261.
  4. ^ Robertson, James A.; Bradler, Sven; Whiting, Michael F. (2018). "Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea)". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00216.
  5. ^ Brock, Paul D.; Otte, Daniel (2018). "Phasmida species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2019-03-22.

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