Euphasmatodea

Euphasmatodea
Temporal range: Aptian–Recent
Heteropteryx dilatata from Malaysia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Order: Phasmatodea
Suborder: Euphasmatodea
Bradler, 1999
Superfamilies

Aschiphasmatoidea
Bacilloidea
Phyllioidea
Pseudophasmatoidea
3 families incertae sedis

Synonyms

Verophasmatodea Zompro, 2004

The Euphasmatodea,[1][2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Phasmida Species File: suborder Euphasmatodea (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 27 May 2021)
  2. ^ Cliquennois (2020) In Aberlenc [Ed.]: Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1: 414.
  3. ^ Ghirotto, Victor M.; Crispino, Edgar B.; Chiquetto-Machado, Pedro I.; Neves, Pedro A. B. A.; Engelking, Phillip W.; Ribeiro, Guilherme C. (May 2022). Labandeira, Conrad (ed.). "The oldest Euphasmatodea (Insecta, Phasmatodea): modern morphology in an Early Cretaceous stick insect fossil from the Crato Formation of Brazil". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (3). Bibcode:2022PPal....8E1437G. doi:10.1002/spp2.1437. ISSN 2056-2799. S2CID 249738376.