family Phasmatidae

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family Phasmatidae - stick insects

family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, Phasmidae

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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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).

Morphology of the digestive tract of Cladomorphus phyllinus (Phasmatodea: Phasmidae)

Remarks on nomenclatural change.--For the family Phasmatidae Redtenbacher (1908) proposed the oriental phasmid genus Ernodes oftypespecies ErnodessumatranusRedtenbacher,1908,bysubsequent designation Zompro & Adis (2001).

Redtenbacherus nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied phasmid genus Ernodes Redtenbacher, 1908 (Phasmida: Phasmatidae)