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family Heteropterygidae Kirby, 1896

• Distribution:
  •  Australasia, Asia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (16):
  • Zompro. 1996. Entomol. Z. 106(4):161   >> Note: elevated to Family
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 28, 191  
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 31  
  • Zompro. 2009. Arthropoda 17(1):15  
  • Seow-Choen. 2016. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Borneo 374   >> Note: Key to subfamilies in Borneo
  • Hennemann, Conle, Brock & Seow-Choen. 2016. Zootaxa 4159(1):8, 10, 24 et al   >> Note: rearrangement; key to subfamilies (p.10), genera included (p.24)
  • Seow-Choen. 2017. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Singapore 131   >> Note: Key to subfamilies in Singapore
  • Büscher, Buckley, Grohmann, Gorb & Bradler. 2018. Front. Ecol. Evol. 6:4   >> Note: Phylogeny and tarsal morphology
  • Seow-Choen. 2018. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Sumatra. Volume 1 588   >> Note: In Sumatra
  • Simon, Letsch, Bank, Buckley, Donath, S. Liu, Machida, Meusemann, Misof, Podsiadlowski, X. Zhou, Wipfler & Bradler. 2019. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7(345):1   >> Note: belongs to Oriophasmata tax. nov. (“Eastern phasmids”)
  • Cliquennois. 2020. In Aberlenc [Ed.]. Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1:415, 418   >> Note: in superfamily Heteropterygoidea
  • Seow-Choen. 2020. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Sumatra. Volume 2 305  
  • Bank, Buckley, Büscher, Bresseel, Constant, Haan, D. Dittmar, Dräger, Kahar, Kang, Kneubühler, Langton-Myers & Bradler. 2021. Systematic Entomology 1   >> Note: Lineage
  • Hennemann. 2021. Zootaxa 5073(1):21, 172  
  • Seow-Choen. 2021. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Peninsular Malaysia Volume 1 835  
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 26  
• Type genus:  Heteropteryx Gray, G.R., 1835; priority for family-group names based on Heteropteryx dates from Heteropteryginae Kirby, W.F., 1896.  First use as Heteropterygidae by Zompro, 1996.

• subfamily Dataminae Rehn & Rehn, 1939
• tribe Datamini Rehn & Rehn, 1939
• subfamily Heteropteryginae Kirby, 1896
• tribe Heteropterygini Kirby, 1896
• subfamily Obriminae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• synonym Therameninae Karny, 1923
• tribe Hoplocloniini
• tribe Obrimini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

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