order Phasmatodea


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Related to order Phasmatodea: order Diptera, order Phasmida, Phasmida, Stick insects
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Noun1.order Phasmatodea - in some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects
order Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmida
animal order - the order of animals
class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
phasmid, phasmid insect - large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects
family Phasmatidae, family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, Phasmidae - stick insects
family Phillidae, family Phyllidae, Phillidae, Phyllidae - leaf insects
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Zompro O (2001) A generic revision of the insect order Phasmatodea: The New World genera of the stick insect subfamily Diapheromeridae: Diapheromerinae = I Ieteronemiidae: Heteronemiinae sensu Bradley and Galil, 1977.
Description of the female, egg and first instar nymph of the stick insect Paraphasma pautense (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) from Southeast Brazil
Walking sticks (Order Phasmatodea) are fairly unique in that for many species, females can readily reproduce both sexually and asexually despite a potentially healthy proportion of males (Bergerard 1958; Giorgi 1992; Brock 1999; Otte & Brock 2005).
Sexual vs. asexual reproduction in a stick insect
[[dagger] The Order Phasmida is referred to by some authors as Order Phasmatodea. The two are synonymous and derive from the Greek and Latin phasma, meaning apparition or ghost.
Stick insects (Order Phasmida) of Eastern Arabia: a photographic review

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