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Lonchodidae

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Family of stick insects

Lonchodidae
Acanthomenexenus polyacanthus (Lonchodini)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Infraorder: Anareolatae
Family: Lonchodidae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Lonchodidae is a family of stick insects, with more than 150 genera and 1,000 described species.

The subfamilies Necrosciinae and Lonchodinae, formerly part of Diapheromeridae, were determined to make up a separate family and were transferred to the re-established family Lonchodidae in 2018.

Trachythorax maculicollis (Necrosciini)

Subfamilies and tribes

References

  1. Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893) Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova (2)13(33): 80.
  2. "Lonchodidae". GBIF. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. 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.

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Taxon identifiers
Lonchodidae
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