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Taxa hierarchy  

family Phylliidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

• Distribution:
  •  Australasia, Asia, Pacific
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (42):
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova (2)13(33):101   >> Note: Phyllidae
  • Griffini. 1898. Extrait des Miscellanea Entomologica 6(1):8   >> Note: Phylliidae
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:105   >> Note: Phyllinae
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:420   >> Note: Phylliinae
  • Karny. 1923. Treubia 3(2):232   >> Note: Syn. Areolatae Redtenbacher, p. 19
  • Handlirsch. 1930. In Kükenthal & Krumbach [Ed.]. Handbuch der Zoologie, Vol. 4 759 >> Note: in Key to Phasmida
  • Günther. 1953. Beiträge zur Entomologie, Berlin 3(5):545   >> Note: Phylliinae, credited to Karny 1923 (=Areolatae Redtenbacher)
  • Moxey. 1972. Harvard University [unpublished thesis] 23
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):204  
  • Sellick. 1978. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 63:249-258   >> Note: Eggs
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 192   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis]
  • Kevan. 1982. In Parker, S.F. [Ed.]. Synopsis and classification of living organisms 2:381
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:277   >> Note: Capitula of eggs
  • Seow-Choen. 1997. A guide to the stick and leaf insects of Singapore 137  
  • Balderson, Rentz & Roach. 1998. In Houston & A. Wells [Ed.]. Zoological Catalog of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera 351 >> Note: in part [also considered to include numerous stick insects, as in Key 1991]
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:211   >> Note: Micropylar plate
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 189  
  • Grösser. 2001. Wandelnde Blätter. Ein Katalog aller bisher beschriebenen Phylliinae-Arten und deren Eier mit drei Neubeschreibungen. 1st Edition 1-119 >> Note: Coverage of all but one described Phyllium species
  • Zompro. 2001. Reichenbachia 34(5):51   >> Note: Key to genera
  • Zompro & Grösser. 2003. Spixiana 26(2):130   >> Note: Generic revision
  • Brock. 2003. In Gale Research Staff. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Insects 221  
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 268  
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 33  
  • Wedmann, Bradler & Rust. 2007. PNAS 104(2):565   >> Note: first fossil leaf insect
  • Chen, S.C. & Y.H. He. 2008. Phasmatodea of China 366  
  • Grösser. 2008. Wandelnde Blätter. Ein Katalog aller bisher beschriebenen Phylliinae-Arten und deren Eier mit drei Neubeschreibungen. 2nd Edition. 16   >> Note: photographs / illustrations and notes on all taxa; p. 64 key to tribes and genera
  • Zompro. 2009. Arthropoda 17(1):18  
  • Mandal & Yadav. 2010. Records of the Zoological Survey of India Occasional Paper 318:51  
  • Grösser. 2011. ARTHROPODA Generalis 3:1, numerous figs.   >> Note: comments on recent taxonomic changes; figs of genitalia; difficulties in describing material from culture stocks
  • Grösser. 2013. Grundwissen Wandelnde Blätter eine Einführung in die Biologie, Haltung & Zucht 1   >> Note: rearing, useful illustrated eggs p. 20-21
  • Brock. 2014. In Telnov [Ed.]. Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea, volume II 145   >> Note: taxonomic comments
  • Seow-Choen. 2016. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Borneo 422  
  • Seow-Choen. 2017. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Singapore 143  
  • Cumming, Leong & Lohman. 2017. Zootaxa 4365(2):101  
  • Cumming & Teemsma. 2018. Insecta Mundi(650):1-9  
  • Seow-Choen. 2018. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Sumatra. Volume 1 651   >> Note: in Sumatra
  • Cumming, Bank, Le Tirant & Bradler. 2020. ZooKeys 913:89-126   >> Note: Phylogeny
  • Bank, Cumming, Yunchang Li, Henze, Le Tirant & Bradler. 2021. Communications Biology 4(932):1-12   >> Note: Molecular phylogeny
  • Seow-Choen. 2021. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Peninsular Malaysia Volume 1 872  
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 24  
  • Büscher, Bank, Cumming, Gorb & Bradler. 2023. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23(17):1   >> Note: Functional morphology and evolution of the adhesive system of leaf insect eggs
  • Cumming, Le Tirant, Linde, Solan, Foley, Eulin, Lavado, M.F. Whiting, Bradler & Bank. 2023. ZooKeys 1173:150  
• Type genus:  Phyllium Illiger, 1798; priority for family-group names based on Phyllium dates from Phylliidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.  First use as Phylliidae by Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.

• subfamily Phylliinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
• tribe Nanophylliini Zompro & Grösser, 2003
• tribe Phylliini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

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