Acanthoxylini
[Leach (1815) In Brewster, D. ''The Edinburgh Encyclopedia'' 9(1): 119.] is a
tribe
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of
Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an Order (biology), order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred ...
s (stick insects and relatives). They belong to the "typical" stick insects of the
superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
Anareolatae
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 ...
, though they are rather notable among these. For example, the
New Zealand giant stick insect (the only species of ''Argosarchus'') is huge, and all ''
Acanthoxyla'' are females reproducing by
parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (; from the Greek + ) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which the embryo develops directly from an egg without need for fertilization. In animals, parthenogenesis means the development of an embryo from an unfertiliz ...
.
Genera
The following
genera
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...
are currently recognized:
[
# '' Acanthoxyla'' Uvarov, 1944
# '' Argosarchus'' Hutton
# '']Clitarchus Clitarchus may refer to:
*Cleitarchus
Cleitarchus or Clitarchus () was one of the historians of Alexander the Great. Son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus. He was active in the mid t ...
'' Stål, 1875
# '' Pseudoclitarchus'' Salmon, 1991
# '' Tepakiphasma'' Buckley and Bradler, 2010
See also
* List of stick insects of New Zealand
Phasmatodea, Stick insects in New Zealand are found in a range of different environments, from cold high alpine areas to dry coastal bush. There are currently 23 different species described, from 10 genera . The most common species of the stick ...
References
External links
The Phasmid Study Group: Acanthoxylini
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Phasmatidae
Phasmatodea tribes