Phasmatodea

thumb|upright|Phasmid in marginal forest on a pitcher plant in the [[Philippines]] The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as '''Devil's darning needles, although this name is shared by both dragonflies and crane flies. They can be generally referred to as phasmatodeans, phasmids, or ghost insects, with phasmids in the family Phylliidae called leaf insects, leaf-bugs, walking leaves, or bug leaves'. The ord

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Pseudophasmatidae is a family of stick insect, in the suborder Verophasmatodea, commonly called the "striped walkingsticks". An important identifying characteristic is its mesothorax, which is never more than three times as long as the prothorax.

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The Euphasmatodea, also known by its junior synonym Verophasmatodea is a suborder of the Phasmatodea, which contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects, excluding the Timematodea. The oldest record of Euphasmatodea is Araripephasma from the Crato Formation of Brazil, dating to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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Obrimus is a stick insect genus native to the Philippines. It is type genus for the tribe and the subfamily in which it is listed. thumb|Obrimus bicolanus, left ♂, right ♀ view of slit-like impression near the lateral margins of the metasternum == Characteristics == The species of this genus correspond in the habitus to the other representatives of the Obrimini, appear somewhat longer-legged compared to these and also have longer antennae than these. Like almost all other Obrimini, they are wingless in either sex. They are similar in size and appearance to the species of the genus Brasidas. As

Heteronemiidae is a family of walkingsticks in the order Phasmatodea. There are about 14 genera and at least 80 described species in Heteronemiidae.

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thumb|Hoploclonia abercrombiei, male thumb|Hoploclonia gecko, male

Haaniella is a genus of the Phasmatodea family Heteropterygidae from Southeast Asia.

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thumb|upright|female Epidares nolimetangere, the touch-me-not stick insect, is an insect species from the order of the Phasmatodea and the only representative of the genus Epidares. The species name nolimetangere (originally: noli-me-tangere) comes from Latin and means "don't touch me". It refers to the prickly appearance of the animals.

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thumb|Distribution of the Trachyaretaon species according to Frank H. Hennemann|Hennemann 2023 thumb|Trachyaretaon carmelae, pair thumb|Trachyaretaon echinatus, female from 'North-[[Luzon']] thumb|upright|Pair of Trachyaretaon negrosanon from [[Negros Island]] Trachyaretaon is a genus of stick insects native to the Philippines.

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