Full name: |
Phasmida Species File UPDATED!
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Short name: |
PhasmidaSF |
Version: |
5.0, Dec 2015 |
Release date: |
2015-12-02 |
Authors/editors: |
Brock P. |
Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Phasmida |
English name of the group: |
Stick and leaf insects |
Number of living species |
3,095 |
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
96 |
Number of extinct species: |
0 |
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
Number of synonyms: |
3,750 |
Number of common names: |
352 |
Total number of names: |
7,293 |
Abstract: |
The Phasmida Species File is a taxonomic database of the world's Phasmida (stick and leaf insects, known as walking sticks and walking leaves in the U.S.). It contains full synonymic and taxonomic information for c. 3,050 valid species. There are c. 27,600 citations to c. 2500 references, also c. 6,200 specimen records and more than 11,500 images of over two thirds of valid species. The database is being continually updated by the author (Paul Brock), making it user friendly to taxonomists and rearers. |
Organization: |
The Natural History Museum, London, UK |
Website: |
http://phasmida.speciesfile.org |
Bibliographic citation: |
Brock P. (2025). PhasmidaSF: Phasmida Species File (version 5.0, Dec 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |