Anisacanthidae
Family of stick insects
| Anisacanthidae | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Parectatosoma sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Superfamily: | Bacilloidea |
| Family: | Anisacanthidae Günther, 1953 |
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]
Genera
The Phasmida Species File includes 3 subfamilies:[1]
Anisacanthinae
Monotypic subfamily: all in tribe Anisacanthini Günther, 1953
- Anisacantha Redtenbacher, 1906
- Paranisacantha Cliquennois, 2008
- Parectatosoma Wood-Mason, 1879
- Somacantha Cliquennois, 2008
Leiophasmatinae
Auth. Cliquennois, 2008
- Adelophasma Cliquennois, 2018
- Amphiphasma Cliquennois, 2008
- Leiophasma Uvarov, 1940
Xerantherinae
Auth. Cliquennois, 2008
- Archantherix Cliquennois, 2008
- Cenantherix Cliquennois, 2008
- Parorobia Chopard, 1952
- Xerantherix Brancsik, 1893
References
Further reading
- 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.
- Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. The Amateur Entomologist. Vol. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Media related to Anisacanthidae at Wikimedia Commons
