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Phasmid in marginal forest on a pitcher plant, Philippines. The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's darning needles, although this name is shared ...
Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are a distinctive insect order whose members are characterized by mimicking various plant tissues such as twigs, foliage and bark. Unfortunately, the phylogenetic relationships among phasmatodean subfamilies and the timescale of their evolution remain uncertain.
Stick insect species, often called walking sticks, range in size from the tiny, half-inch-long Timema cristinae of North America, to the formidable 13-inch-long Phobaeticus kirbyi of Borneo. This ...
PDF | The family Phasmatidae Gray, 1835 is reviewed and the subfamily Phasmatinae shown to be polyphyletic. Based on features of the exosceleton of the... | Find, read and cite all the research ...
In order to resolve the early branching events of stick and leaf insects, we analyzed transcriptomes from 61 species, including 38 Phasmatodea species comprising all major clades and 23 outgroup taxa, including all other Polyneoptera orders.
Phasmatidae. taxonomy. Phasma (Diura) osiris Gray, 1834, Melville Island, Australia. other common names. None known. physical characteristics. Large, spectacular, green-winged species. Males reach 4.5–5.3 in (115–134 mm), and females grow to 6.9–8.7 in (170–221 mm). The female's thorax has a bold pink central stripe. Legs are spiny ...
The Phasmida Species File group works to build a comprehensive source for knowledge about the world’s phasmids, or stick and leaf insects. Information found here includes valid names, their synonyms, bibliographic data, specimen data, images, sounds, and distributions for phasmids of the world.
