Euphasmatodea
| Euphasmatodea Temporal range: Eocene - Recent
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| Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Phasmatodea |
| Suborder: | Euphasmatodea Zompro 2004 |
| Superfamilies and families | |
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The Verophasmatodea suborder of the Phasmatodea contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects.
Superfamilies and families
The two infraorders may be distinguished by the entomological meaning of the term "areola": with the presence or absence (Anareolatae) of a small ring of colour or gap in wing margin - see the Glossary of entomology terms.
Infraorder Anareolatae
- Anareolatae have a Worldwide distribution (except Antarctic)
- Diapheromeridae - Kirby, 1904
- Phasmatidae - Gray, 1835
Infraorder Areolatae
- Superfamily Aschiphasmatoidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
- †Archipseudophasmatidae[1]
- Aschiphasmatidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Tropical Southeast Asia)
- Damasippoididae - Zompro, 2004 (Madagascar)
- Prisopodidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Central and South America, south Africa, India, Indo-China, Malesia)
- Superfamily Bacilloidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
- Anisacanthidae - Günther, 1953 (Madagascar)
- Bacillidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Africa, Europe)
- Heteropterygidae - Kirby, 1896 (Australasia, east and southeast Asia)
- Superfamily Phyllioidea - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
- Phylliidae - Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Australasia, Asia, Pacific)
- Superfamily Pseudophasmatoidea - Rehn, 1904 (especially Americas, Madagascar, Asia, Australasia, Europe)
- Heteronemiidae - Rehn, 1904
- Pseudophasmatidae - Rehn, 1904
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.
External Links
Media related to Euphasmatodea at Wikimedia Commons- Phasmid Study Group: Verophasmatodea
