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Anisacanthidae
Parectatosoma sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Phasmatodea
Superfamily:	Bacilloidea
Family:	Anisacanthidae Günther, 1953

Anisacanthidae is a family of stick insects in the superfamily Bacilloidea. There are at least 30 described species in Anisacanthidae, all from Madagascar.

Genera

The Phasmida Species File includes 3 subfamilies:

Anisacanthinae

Monotypic subfamily: all in tribe Anisacanthini Günther, 1953

1. Anisacantha Redtenbacher, 1906
2. Paranisacantha Cliquennois, 2008
3. Parectatosoma Wood-Mason, 1879
4. Somacantha Cliquennois, 2008

Leiophasmatinae

Auth. Cliquennois, 2008

1. Adelophasma Cliquennois, 2018
2. Amphiphasma Cliquennois, 2008
3. Leiophasma Uvarov, 1940

Xerantherinae

Auth. Cliquennois, 2008

1. Archantherix Cliquennois, 2008
2. Cenantherix Cliquennois, 2008
3. Parorobia Chopard, 1952
4. Xerantherix Brancsik, 1893

References

1. ^ Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 March 2024)
2. "Browse Anisacanthidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
3. "Anisacanthidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). 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. The Amateur Entomologist. Vol. 26. The Amateur Entomologists' Society. ISBN 0-900054-63-8.
• 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. S2CID 36008925.
• Otte, Daniel; Brock, Paul (2005). Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World (2nd ed.). Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. ISBN 1-929014-08-2.

External links

• Media related to Anisacanthidae at Wikimedia Commons

• Phasmatodea families