Verophasmatodea

Verophasmatodea
Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Phasmatodea
Suborder:Verophasmatodea
Zompro 2004
Superfamilies and families

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

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[1]
    • 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)

References

  1. ↑ 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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