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genus Leiophasma Uvarov, 1940

• Nomenclatural details:   Nomen novum (Junior homonym is Orobia)
• Distribution:
  •  Madagascar
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (9):
  • Uvarov. 1940. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(6):114   >> Note: new name for Orobia Stal >> Leiophasma    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7591
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):197   >> Note: Pygirhynchinae >> Leiophasma
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 635   >> Note: type species data >> Leiophasma
  • Cliquennois. 2003. Le Bulletin de Phyllie 17(3):11   >> Note: list of species >> Leiophasma
  • Cliquennois. 2003. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 108(4):413   >> Note: key to species; in subfamily Pygirhynchinae? >> Leiophasma
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 247, 313   >> Leiophasma
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 169   >> Note: Phasma is neuter, hence corrections in endings of species names >> Leiophasma
  • Cliquennois. 2008. Ann. Soc. entomol. Fr. n.s. 44(1):80   >> Note: in new subfamily Leiophasmatinae >> Leiophasma
  • Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler. 2018. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:1-11, fig   >> Note: Phylogeny and tarsal morphology >> Leiophasma
• Type species:  Orobia nigrolineata Stål (= Leiophasma nigrolineatum), inherited from replaced name
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Leiophasmatinae Cliquennois, 2008.

• synonym Orobia Stål, 1875
• species adustum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species brevivalvis (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species concolor (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species flaviceps (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species intermedium (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species lucubense (Brancsik, 1893)
• species maculipes (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species mayottense Cliquennois, 2003
• species nigrolineatum (Stål, 1875)
• species nigrotuberculatum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• subspecies modestum (Carl, 1913)
• subspecies nigrotuberculatum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species operculatum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species sohri (Brancsik, 1898)
• species spinosum (Redtenbacher, 1906)
• species vaginatum (Redtenbacher, 1906)

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