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Phasmida  Leach, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 666755

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Order  
  Synonym(s): Phasmatoptera
 
    Phasmatodea Jacobson and Bianchi, 1902
  
    Cheleutoptera
 
  Common Name(s): phasmids [English]
  
    stick insects [English]
  
    leaf insects [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderPolyneoptera   
                               OrderPhasmida Leach, 1815 – phasmids, stick insects, leaf insects  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Family Diapheromeridae   
                                  Family Phasmatidae  – walking sticks 
                                  Family Pseudophasmatidae   
                                  Family Timematidae  – timemas 
       

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  Source: All Living Families (Ruggiero, 2019), database (version 1.0.0)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: Ruggiero, M. (2019). All Living Families (1.0.0). ITIS, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data-all-living-families   
  Reference for: Phasmida   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bradley, James Chester, and Bella S. Galil  
  Publication Date: 1977   
  Article/Chapter Title: The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, vol. 79, no. 2   
  Page(s): 176-208   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0013-8797   
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  Reference for: Phasmida   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brock, Paul D.  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Amateur Entomologist, vol. 26   
  Page(s): xvi + 165   
  Publisher: The Amateur Entomologists' Society   
  Publication Place: Orpington, Kent, England   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-900054-63-8   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Phasmida   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xx + 936   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-87893-097-3   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Phasmida   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore  
  Publication Date: 2022   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 22: Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Fourth Edition   
  Page(s): 735-783   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Oxford University Press   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780197554418   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Phasmida   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Otte, Daniel, and Paul Brock  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World, Second Edition   
  Page(s): 414   
  Publisher: Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia   
  Publication Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-929014-08-2   
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