Anisacanthidae is a family of stick insects in the superfamily Bacilloidea. There are at least 30 described species in Anisacanthidae, all from Madagascar.[1][2][3]
Anisacanthidae | |
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Parectatosoma sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Phasmatodea |
Superfamily: | Bacilloidea |
Family: | Anisacanthidae Günther, 1953 |
Genera
editThe Phasmida Species File includes 3 subfamilies:[1]
Anisacanthinae
editMonotypic subfamily: all in tribe Anisacanthini Günther, 1953
- Anisacantha Redtenbacher, 1906
- Paranisacantha Cliquennois, 2008
- Parectatosoma Wood-Mason, 1879
- Somacantha Cliquennois, 2008
Leiophasmatinae
editAuth. Cliquennois, 2008
- Adelophasma Cliquennois, 2018
- Amphiphasma Cliquennois, 2008
- Leiophasma Uvarov, 1940
Xerantherinae
editAuth. Cliquennois, 2008
- Archantherix Cliquennois, 2008
- Cenantherix Cliquennois, 2008
- Parorobia Chopard, 1952
- Xerantherix Brancsik, 1893
References
edit- ^ a b Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 March 2024)
- ^ "Browse Anisacanthidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- ^ "Anisacanthidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395911709.
- 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 0013-8797.176-208&rft.date=1977&rft.issn=0013-8797&rft.aulast=Bradley&rft.aufirst=James Chester&rft.au=Galil, Bella S.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Anisacanthidae" class="Z3988">
- Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. The Amateur Entomologist. Vol. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-950054-63-8.
- Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
- Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
- Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys (22): 267–283. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22..267M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93.267-283&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info:doi/10.3897/zookeys.22.93&rft_id=info:bibcode/2009ZooK...22..267M&rft.aulast=Majka&rft.aufirst=C.&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.3897%2Fzookeys.22.93&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Anisacanthidae" class="Z3988">
- Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (6210): 763–767. Bibcode:2014Sci...346..763M. doi:10.1126/science.1257570. PMID 25378627. S2CID 36008925.763-767&rft.date=2014&rft_id=info:doi/10.1126/science.1257570&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:36008925#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:pmid/25378627&rft_id=info:bibcode/2014Sci...346..763M&rft.aulast=Misof&rft.aufirst=B.&rft.au=Liu, S.&rft.au=Meusemann, K.&rft.au=Peters, R.S.&rft.au=Donath, A.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Anisacanthidae" class="Z3988">
- Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World (2nd ed.). Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2.
External links
edit- Media related to Anisacanthidae at Wikimedia Commons