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Phasmida

Insect order comprising the stick insects and leaf insects.

There are some 2,000 species, mainly tropical, arranged in two families: Phylliidae, the leaf insects; and Phasmatidae, the stick insects.

Classification

Phasmida is in subclass Pterygota, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.



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But the 3,000 or so species in an insect group called the phasmids take camouflage to an extreme, says Sonja Wedmann of the Institute for Paleontology in Bonn, Germany.
Seow-Choen, Francis, Jongkar Grinang and Margarita Naming 2004 Phasmids.
Early in the past century, people found the phasmids on Lord Howe Island, near Balls Pyramid.
 
 
 
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