Heteronemiidae is a family of walkingsticks in the order Phasmatodea. There are about 14 genera and at least 80 described species in Heteronemiidae.[1][2][3]
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Parabacillus hesperus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Phasmatodea |
Superfamily: | Pseudophasmatoidea |
Family: | Heteronemiidae |
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Genera
editThese 14 genera belong to the family Heteronemiidae:[2][3]
- Canuleius
- Ceroys
- Heteronemia
- Minteronemia
- Parabacillus Caudell, 1903 (short-horn walkingsticks)
- Paraceroys
- Paraleptynia
- Paraxeropsis
- Pygirhynchus
- Spinonemia
- Splendidonemia
- Tersomia
- Xeropsis
- Xiphophasma
References
edit- ^ "Heteronemiidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ a b "Heteronemiidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
- ^ a b "Browse Heteronemiidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Borror, Donald J.; Peterson, Roger Tory; White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to Insects. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395911709.
- Bradley, James Chester; Galil, Bella S. (1977). "The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 79 (2): 176–208. ISSN 0013-8797.
- Brock, Paul D. (1999). The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects. Vol. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8.
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ignored (help) - Gillott, Cedric (1980). Entomology. Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-40366-8.
- Kellogg, Vernon L. (1905). American insects. H. Holt.
- Majka, C. (2009). "Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island". ZooKeys (22): 267–283. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22..267M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.93.
- Misof, B.; Liu, S.; Meusemann, K.; Peters, R.S.; et al. (2014). "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution". Science. 346 (6210): 763–767. Bibcode:2014Sci...346..763M. doi:10.1126/science.1257570. PMID 25378627.
- Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World. Vol. Second Edition. Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2.
External links
edit- Media related to Heteronemiidae at Wikimedia Commons