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family Timematidae Caudell, 1903

• Distribution:
  •  United States: Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon; Mexico
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (14):
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:882   >> Note: Timeminae
  • Essig. 1926. Insects of western North America 108 >> Note: first use of Family as Timemidae
  • Tinkham. 1942. Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 41(2):72   >> Note: Timemidae
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):195   >> Note: Timematidae, corrected family name
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 170   >> Note: Egg - no details published [unpublished thesis]
  • Kevan. 1982. In Parker, S.F. [Ed.]. Synopsis and classification of living organisms 2:380 >> Note: Timematidae
  • Arnett. 1985. American insects: a handbook of the insects of America north of Mexico. First edition. 115
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Note: in checklist of insects of North America
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:205   >> Note: Micropylar plate of eggs
  • Tilgner, Kiselyova & McHugh. 1999. D. ent. Zs 46(2):149  
  • Brock. 2003. In Gale Research Staff. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 221  
  • Büscher, Grohmann, Bradler & Gorb. 2019. Zoologica 164:6   >> Note: within Anareolatae
  • Cliquennois. 2020. In Aberlenc [Ed.]. Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles 1:419   >> Note: in superfamily Timematoidea, suborder Timematodea
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 23  
• Scrutiny:
  • Büscher, 2017, As this taxon includes solely the genus Timema, this category is somewhat redundant
• Type genus:  Timema Scudder, S.H., 1895; priority for family-group names based on Timema dates from Timeminae Caudell, 1903.  First use as Timematidae by Essig, 1926.

• subfamily Timematinae Caudell, 1903
• synonym Timeminae Caudell, 1903
• tribe Timematini Caudell, 1903

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