The Gratidiini are a
tribe
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of
stick insect
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 da ...
s based on the type genus ''
Clonaria'' (as an old synonym ''Gratidia'' Stål, 1875) and first used by Cliquennois in 2005. Genera are known to be distributed in: Africa, Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and various Pacific Islands.
[
This tribe was previously placed in the Pachymorphinae, but the current consensus (2022) is that it is better placed in the Bacilloidea: either in the family Bacillidae][ or a proposed new family "Gratidiidae".][Cliquennois (2020) In Aberlenc d. ''Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles'' 1: 419.]
Genera
The ''Phasmida Species File''[Phasmida Species File: tribe Gratidiini Cliquennois, 2005 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 24 November 2022)]
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# '' Adelungella'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
# '' Adelungella'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
# '' Burria'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1900
# '' Clonaria'' Stål, 1875
# '' Gharianus'' Werner, 1908
# '' Gratidiinilobus'' Brock, 2005
# '' Ladakhomorpha'' Hennemann & Conle, 1999
# '' Leptynia'' Pantel, 1890
# '' Linocerus'' Gray, 1835
# '' Macellina'' Uvarov, 1940
# '' Maransis'' Karsch, 1898
# '' Paragongylopus'' Chen & He, 1997
# '' Phthoa'' Karsch, 1898
# '' Pijnackeria'' Scali, 2009
# '' Sceptrophasma'' Brock & Seow-Choen, 2000
# '' Zangphasma'' Chen & He, 2008
# '' Zehntneria'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
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Phasmatodea tribes