Phasmatini

Phasmatini
Ctenomorpha marginipennis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phasmatodea
Family:	Phasmatidae
Subfamily:	Phasmatinae
Tribe:	Phasmatini Leach, 1815

Phasmatini ^[1] is a tribe of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. There are more than 40 described species, found in Australasia, and Asia. ^[2]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Phasmatini:

• Acrophylla Gray, 1835
• Anchiale Stål, 1875
• Cigarrophasma Brock & Hasenpusch, 2001 (monotypic Cigarrophasma tessellatum )
• Ctenomorpha Gray, 1833
• Dryococelus Gurney, 1947 (monotypic)
• Eurycnema Serville, 1838
• Onchestus Stål, 1877
• Paractenomorpha Hennemann & Conle, 2004 (monotypic Paractenomorpha baehri )
• Paracyphocrania Redtenbacher, 1908
• Paronchestus Redtenbacher, 1908
• Peloriana Uvarov, 1940 (monotypic Peloriana lobiceps )
• Phasma Lichtenstein, 1796

References

1. Leach (1815) In Brewster, D. The Edinburgh Encyclopedia 9: 119.
2. Brock, Paul D.; Otte, Daniel (2019). "tribe Phasmatini Leach, 1815". Phasmida species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

• Bradley, James Chester; Galil, Bella S. (1977). "The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 79 (2): 176–208. ISSN   0013-8797.
• 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 .