{{Short description|Family of stick insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Stick Insect (Parectatosoma sp.), Vohimana reserve, Madagascar (12264302936).jpg | image_caption = ''Parectatosoma'' sp. | taxon = Anisacanthidae | authority = Günther, 1953 }}
'''Anisacanthidae''' is a family of stick insects in the superfamily Bacilloidea. There are at least 30 described species in Anisacanthidae, all from Madagascar.<ref name=PSF/><ref name=catlife/><ref name=gbif/>
==Genera== The ''Phasmida Species File'' includes 3 subfamilies:<ref name=PSF>[http://phasmida.archive.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1200197 Phasmida Species File] (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 15 March 2024)</ref> ===Anisacanthinae=== Monotypic subfamily: all in tribe Anisacanthini {{Au|Günther, 1953}} # ''Anisacantha'' {{Au|Redtenbacher, 1906}} # ''Paranisacantha'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2008}} # ''Parectatosoma'' {{Au|Wood-Mason, 1879}} # ''Somacantha'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2008}}
===Leiophasmatinae=== thumb|Unidentified ''Leiophasma'' male Auth. Cliquennois, 2008 # ''Adelophasma'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2018}} # ''Amphiphasma'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2008}} # ''Leiophasma'' {{Au|Uvarov, 1940}}
===Xerantherinae=== Auth. Cliquennois, 2008 # ''Archantherix'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2008}} # ''Cenantherix'' {{Au|Cliquennois, 2008}} # ''Parorobia'' {{Au|Chopard, 1952}} # ''Xerantherix'' {{Au|Brancsik, 1893}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Browse Anisacanthidae | url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/4a93d684d1ceda6869644d24ad3ce372 | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2018-04-29 }}</ref> <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=Anisacanthidae | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/3765 | website=GBIF | access-date=2018-04-29 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. Jr. | date = 2000 | title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC | publisher = CRC Press | edition = 2nd | isbn = 0-8493-0212-9 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Borror | first1 = Donald J. | last2 = Peterson | first2 = Roger Tory | last3 = White | first3 = Richard E. | date = 1998 | title = A Field Guide to Insects | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | isbn = 978-0395911709 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetoinse00borr_1 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Bradley | first1 = James Chester | last2 = Galil | first2 = Bella S. | date = 1977 | title = The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes | journal = Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington | volume = 79 | issue = 2 | pages = 176–208 | issn = 0013-8797 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Brock | first1 = Paul D. | date = 1999 | title = The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects | series = The Amateur Entomologist | publisher = The Amateur Entomologists' Society | volume = 26 | isbn = 0-900054-63-8 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Gillott | first1 = Cedric | date = 1980 | title = Entomology | publisher = Plenum Press | isbn = 0-306-40366-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/entomology0000gill }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Kellogg | first1 = Vernon L. | date = 1905 | title = American insects | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8439#/summary | publisher = H. Holt }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Majka | first1 = C. | date = 2009 | title = Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 22 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.93 | doi-access = free | pages=267–283 | bibcode = 2009ZooK...22..267M }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Misof | first1 = B. | last2 = Liu | first2 = S. | last3 = Meusemann | first3 = K. | last4 = Peters | first4 = R.S. | last5 = Donath | first5 = A. | display-authors = 4 | date = 2014 | title = Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution | journal = Science | volume = 346 | issue = 6210 | pages = 763–767 | doi = 10.1126/science.1257570 | pmid=25378627 | bibcode = 2014Sci...346..763M | s2cid = 36008925 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Brock | first2 = Paul | date = 2005 | title = Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World | publisher = Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia | edition = 2nd | isbn = 1-929014-08-2 }} {{refend}}
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Category:Phasmatodea families