Verophasmatodea
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Phasmatodea Temporal range: Eocene - Recent | |
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Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Phasmatodea |
Suborder: | Verophasmatodea |
Superfamilies and families | |
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Verophasmatodea is a suborder of the Phasmatodea that contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf-insects.
Superfamilies and families
- Superfamily Anareolatae
- Superfamily Areolatae
- †Archipseudophasmatidae[1]
- Aschiphasmatidae
- Bacillidae
- Heteronemiidae
- Phylliidae
- Pseudophasmatidae
References
- ↑ 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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