Verophasmatodea

The Verophasmatodea suborder of the Phasmatodea contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects.

Verophasmatodea
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Cohort: Polyneoptera
(unranked): Anartioptera
Magnorder: Polyorthoptera
Superorder: Orthopterida
Order: Phasmatodea
Suborder: Verophasmatodea
Zompro 2004
Superfamilies and families

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Superfamilies and families

The two infraorders may be distinguished by the entomological meaning of the term "areola": with the presence or absence (Anareolatae) of a small ring of colour or gap in wing margin - see the Glossary of entomology terms.

Infraorder Anareolatae

Infraorder Areolatae
  • Superfamily Aschiphasmatoidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
    • †Archipseudophasmatidae[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)
  • Superfamily Bacilloidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
  • Superfamily Phyllioidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
    • Phylliidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Australasia, Asia, Pacific)
  • Superfamily Pseudophasmatoidea - Rehn, 1904 (especially Americas, Madagascar, Asia, Australasia, Europe)
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References
  1. 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.
  2. Brock, Paul D.; Otte, Daniel (2018). "Phasmida species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  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.
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