Stick and Leaf Insects

Phasmida

Phasmida (stick and leaf insects) is an order in the class Insecta, containing 3,565 described species.

Scientific classification

Families

• Lonchodidae1,221
• Phasmatidae703
• Diapheromeridae655
• Pseudophasmatidae341
• Heteropterygidae150
• Phylliidae113
• Aschiphasmatidae111
• Heteronemiidae88
• Prisopodidae59
• Bacillidae56
• Anisacanthidae33
• Timematidae21
• Agathemeridae8
• Damasippoididae6