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genus Bostra Stål, 1875

• Distribution:
  •  Northern America (South), Southern America (North)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (18):
  • Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2(17):6, 13   >> Bostra    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:3271
  • Stål. 1875. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:24, 79   >> Bostra
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:350   >> Note: Bacteriinae >> Bostra
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:57   >> Bostra
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1905. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 57:796   >> Note: in table >> Bostra
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:406   >> Bostra
  • Shelford. 1909. Biologia Centrali-Americana Insecta Orthoptera 2:359   >> Bostra
  • Karny. 1923. Treubia 3(2):239   >> Pseudobacteria
  • Hebard. 1924. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 76:150   >> Note: comment on Karny 1923 >> Bostra
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):188   >> Note: Cladomorphinae: Hesperophasmatini >> Bostra
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:119   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Bostra
  • Zompro. 1998. Revision nearktischer und neotropischer Genera der Insektenordnung Phasmatodea, insbesondere der Familie Heteronemiidae sensu Bradley & Galil 21   >> Note: [Unpublished thesis] >> Bostra
  • Zompro. 2001. Revue suisse de Zoologie 108(1):196   >> Note: Diapheromeridae: Diapheromerinae: Diapheromerini; species included only two, comment that revision is needed >> Bostra
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 630   >> Note: type species data >> Bostra
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 306   >> Note: type species data >> Bostra
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 72   >> Bostra
  • López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets. 2018. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:46   >> Note: in checklist of species from Mexico >> Bostra
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 511   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Bostra
• Scrutiny:
  • Brock, 2007, Only one species in genus when described, hence type species turgida, by monotypy [not subsequent designation of Kirby 1904]
  • Brock, 2009, BOSTRA Walker, 1863 [Lepidoptera] takes priority -- per Roger Kendrick
• Type species:  Bacteria turgida Westwood, by original monotypy; authority:  Stål. 1875. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2(17):1-19
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species arcuata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species bifida Redtenbacher, 1908
• species championi Redtenbacher, 1908
• species deplanata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species exigua (Scudder, 1875)
• species incompta Rehn, 1904
• species innocens (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)
• species jaliscensis Rehn, 1904
• species lobata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species magistralis Redtenbacher, 1908
• species magnifica Redtenbacher, 1908
• species margaritata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species mirata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species nuptialis Redtenbacher, 1908
• species obtusecornuta Redtenbacher, 1908
• species procoppi Redtenbacher, 1908
• species pruinosa Redtenbacher, 1908
• species remiformis Rehn, 1904
• species saussurei Redtenbacher, 1908
• species similis Redtenbacher, 1908
• species submutica Redtenbacher, 1908
• species tabida Redtenbacher, 1908
• species tobagoensis Langlois & Bellanger, 2012
• species tridenticulata Redtenbacher, 1908
• species turgida (Westwood, 1859)
• species vacca Redtenbacher, 1908

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