Timematodea

Timematodea Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Timema sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Orthopterida
Order:	Phasmatodea
Suborder:	Timematodea Kevan 1982
Families and genera
?† Zompro 2005 Family Timematidae Caudell 1903 † Chen et al. 2019 Timema Scudder, 1895 † Chen et al. 2019

Timematodea is a small suborder of stick insects, believed to be the earliest branch of the group. It contains only one living genus, Timema, known from the western United States, as well as two fossil genera, and from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar, all three of which are assigned to the family Timematidae. Another genus, from the Eocene aged Baltic amber has also been assigned to the suborder, but this placement is tenative as key diagnostic characters of the family were not noted in its description.^[1] Key diagnostic characters of the family include trimerous tarsi.^[1]

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