Gratidiini

Gratidiini
Clonaria conformans: female, male and eggs
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Superfamily: Bacilloidea
Family: Bacillidae
Tribe: Gratidiini
Cliquennois, 2005

The Gratidiini are a tribe of stick insects based on the type genus Clonaria (as an old synonym Gratidia Stål, 1875) and first used by Cliquennois in 2005.[1] Genera are known to be distributed in: Africa, Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and various Pacific Islands.[2]

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[2] or a proposed new family "Gratidiidae".[3]

  1. ^ Cliquennois (2005)[2004] Le Bulletin de Phyllie 22: 12.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference PSF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cliquennois (2020) In Aberlenc [ed.]. Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1: 419.