Phasmatodea

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo:
Subordines: Agathemerodea – Euphasmatodea – Timematodea
Superfamiliae: †Susumanioidea
Familiae: †Archipseudophasmatidae

Phasmatodea Jacobson & Bianchi, 1902

• Phasmida Leach, 1815
• Cheleutoptera Crampton, 1915
• Phasmatoptera Jeannel, 1947

• Bradler, S. 2009. Die Phylogenie der Stab- und Gespenstschrecken (Insecta: Phasmatodea) [Phylogeny of the stick and leaf insects (Insecta: Phasmatodea)]. Species, Phylogeny and Evolution 2: 3–139. ISBN 978-3-940344-61-8. DOI: 10.17875/gup2009-710 . Academia.edu . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Bradler, S., Robertson, J.A. & Whiting, M.F. 2014. A molecular phylogeny of Phasmatodea with emphasis on Necrosciinae, the most species-rich subfamily of stick insects. Systematic Entomology 39(2): 205–222. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12055 . Reference page. 
• Brock, P.D. & Marshall, J.A. 2011. Order Phasmida Leach, 1815. P 198 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 
• Brock, P.D., Marshall, J.A., Beccaloni, G. & Harman, A.J.E. 2016. The types of Phasmida in the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Zootaxa 4179(2): 151–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.2.1. Reference page. 
• Buckley, T.R., Attanayake, D., Nylander, J.A.A. & Bradler, S. 2010. The phylogenetic placement and biogeographical origins of the New Zealand stick insects (Phasmatodea). Systematic Entomology 35(2): 207–225. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00505.x . Reference page. 
• Hennemann, F.H.; Conle, O.V. 2008: Revision of Oriental Phasmatodea: The tribe Pharnaciini Günther, 1953, including the description of the world's longest insect, and a survey of the family Phasmatidae Gray, 1835 with keys to the subfamilies and tribes (Phasmatodea: "Anareolatae": Phasmatidae). Zootaxa, 1906: 1–316. Abstract & excerpt
• Jewell, T.; Brock, P.D. 2002: A review of the New Zealand stick insects: new genera and synonymy, keys, and a catalogue. Journal of Orthoptera research, 11: 189–197.
• Miskelly, J. & Paiero, S.M. 2019. Mantodea, Blattodea, Orthoptera, Dermaptera, and Phasmida of Canada. Pp 255–269 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.27241 Reference page. 
• Nel, A. & Delfosse, E. 2011. A new Chinese Mesozoic stick insect. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(2): 429–432. DOI: 10.4202/app.2009.1108 . Reference page. 
• Robertson, J.A., Bradler, S. & Whiting, M.F. 2018. Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 216. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00216 . Reference page. 
• Salmon, J.T. 1991: The stick insects of New Zealand. Reed, Auckland.
• Simon, S., Letsch, H., Bank, S., Buckley, T.R., Donath, A., Liu, S., Machida, R., Meusemann, K., Misof, B., Podsiadlowski, L., Zhou, X., Wipfler, B. & Bradler, S. 2019. Old world and new world Phasmatodea: phylogenomics resolve the evolutionary history of stick and leaf insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 345. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00345 . Reference page. 
• Tilgner, E. 2001. The fossil record of Phasmida (Insecta: Neoptera). Insect Systematics & Evolution 31(4): 473–480. DOI: 10.1163/187631200X00507 .
• Velonà, A., Brock, P.D., Hasenpusch, J. & Mantovani, B. 2015: Cryptic diversity in Australian stick insects (Insecta; Phasmida) uncovered by the DNA barcoding approach. Zootaxa 3957(4): 455–466. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.4.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Zompro, O. 2001. Stick Insects in Baltic Amber. Phasmid Studies 10(2): 41–44. BHL.

• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on New Zealand Organisms Register (NZOR).
• Phasmatodea – Taxon details on Phasmida Species File.

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