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subfamily Tropidoderinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

• Distribution:
  •  Australasia, Tropical Asia, Africa
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (8):
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova (2)13(33):97   >> Note: Tropidoderi
  • Günther. 1953. Beiträge zur Entomologie, Berlin 3(5):555   >> Note: Podocanthinae
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):194   >> Note: Tropidoderinae; key to tribes
  • Kevan. 1982. In Parker, S.F. [Ed.]. Synopsis and classification of living organisms 2:383 >> Note: = Podacanthinae
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:177   >> Note: Capitula of eggs
  • Rentz. 1996. Grasshopper country. The abundant orthopteroid insects of Australia. Orthoptera; grasshoppers, katydids, crickets. Blattodea; cockroaches. Mantodea; mantids. Phasmatodea; stick insects. 254  
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 33  
  • Hennemann & Conle. 2008. Zootaxa 1906:37  
• Type genus:  Tropidoderus Gray, G.R., 1835; priority for family-group names based on Tropidoderus dates from Tropidoderi Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.  First use as Tropidoderinae by Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.

• synonym Tropidoderi Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• tribe Gigantophasmatini Hennemann & Conle, 2008
• genus Gigantophasma Sharp, 1898
• tribe Tropidoderini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• genus Lysicles Stål, 1877
• genus Malandania Sjöstedt, 1918
• genus Micropodacanthus Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007
• genus Parapodacanthus Brock, 2003
• genus Paratropidoderus Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007
• genus Podacanthus Gray, 1833
• genus Tropidoderus Gray, 1835
• genus Didymuria Kirby, 1904
• synonym Diura Gray, 1833
• species schultzei (Giglio-Tos, 1912)
• species violescens (Leach, 1814)
• species virginea (Stål, 1875)

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