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Family Pseudophasmatidae - Striped Walkingsticks

Mating pair of two-striped walking sticks? - Anisomorpha buprestoides

Walking stick, but what kind? - Anisomorpha buprestoides

Unknown sticks mating. - Anisomorpha buprestoides - male - female

walking stick- Anisomorpha buprestoides? - Anisomorpha

Southern Two-striped Walkingstick? Front View - Anisomorpha - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Phasmida (Walkingsticks)

Family Pseudophasmatidae (Striped Walkingsticks)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

according to recent studies (Bradler 2009), this group is polyphyletic, so taxonomic changes are to be expected

Numbers

2 spp. in a single genus in our area(1); 61 genera worldwide(2)

Range

represented on all continents except Africa(2); in our area, IL-FL-TX(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Brock P.D. Phasmida species file online. Version 5.0

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 July, 2017 - 8:10am

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