Phasmatidae


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Related to Phasmatidae: Phasmatodea, Phylliidae, Stick insects
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Noun1.Phasmatidae - stick insects
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
order Phasmatodea, order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects
stick insect, walkingstick, walking stick - any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies
genus Diapheromera - a genus of Phasmidae
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First instar nymph of Phryganistria bachmaensis (Ta and Hoang, 2004) (Phasmatidae: Clitumninae) differs from the one of P.
Revision of Oriental Phasmatodea: The tribe Pharnaciini Gunther, 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).
Chen SC, He YH (2001) Phasmatodea: I leteronemiidae and Phasmatidae. In: Wu H, Pang CW (lids) Insects of Tianmu Mountain.
This paper describes the digestive systems of several families of Phasmatodea (Timematidae, Heteropterygidae, Diapheromeridae, Pseudophasmatidae, and Phasmatidae) plus the gut microbiome of these and one other (Phylliidae) to both verify past findings and provide a general description of the Phasmatodea alimentary canal.