| Description | Agathemerodea is a suborder of the insect order Phasmatodea, comprising the stick insects and leaf insects. It consists of the sole genus Agathemera, with the several species limited to the mountainous regions of Argentina, Chile and Peru.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Phasmida : Agathemeridae : Agathemera |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Phasmatodea : Phasmatidae : Agathemera |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Agathemera Stål, 1875 |
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| Name Published In | Stål. 1875. Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, DeGeer et Thunberg. 3. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:1-105 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Agathemera | genus | belongs to Phasmatidae | stated with evidence | Scudder, 1890 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (50%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene |
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| Type Specimen | Anisomorpha pardalina Westwood, 1859 |
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| Designated By | Kirby. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae), The Trustees of the British Museum, London 1:18, pl. 5:1-2 |
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| Type Information Source | Phasmida Species File |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Insecta) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Arthropoda) |
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| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Insecta) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathemera |
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| Scudder S. H. The Tertiary Insects of North America, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII, 1-734 |
| Camousseight. 2006[2005]. Redefinición del género Agathemera Stål, 1875 (Phasmatodea, Pseudophasmatidae). Revista Chilena de Entomologica, Santiago (Rev. Chilena Ent.) 31:13 - via Phasmida Species File |
| DiBlasi, S. Morse, Mayberry, Avila, Morando & Dittmar. 2011. New Spiroplasma in parasitic Leptus mites and their Agathemera walking stick hosts from Argentina. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 107(3):225 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Pizarro. 1997. Insectos de la Alta Montaña del Valle del Elqui, Universidad de la Serena 52 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Sellick. 1998. The eggs of some Chilean phasmids (Phasmida: Pseudophasmatidae). Phasmid Studies 7(1):1 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea), Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler, Germany 28, 40, 304 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Bradley, J.R. & Galil. 1977. The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes. Proceedings of the Entomological Society, Washington 79(2):203 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Camousseight & Bustamente. 1991. Descriptión de los huevos de los Fásmidos (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) de Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomologica, Santiago (Rev. Chilena Ent.) 19:39 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Conle & Hennemann. 1999. Bemerkungen zu Agathemera crassa (Blanchard 1851) aus Chile nebst Beschreibung ihrer Eier (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift (Entomol. Z.) 109(2):82 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Sellick. 1997. Descriptive terminology of the phasmid egg capsule, with an extended key to the phasmid genera based on egg structure. Systematic Entomology 22:120 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Recensio Orth., 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Berg. 1899. Sobre algunos anisomórfidos chileno-argentinos. Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 1(5):182 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Bradler. 2000. On the systematic position of Agathemera Stål 1875 within the Phasmatodea (Insecta). Zoology 103:99 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Bradler. 2003. In Dathe [Ed.]. Phasmatodea, Gespenstschrecken. Lehrbuch der speziellen Zoologie. I. Wirbellose Tiere. 5. Insecta. Spektrum, Heidelberg, Berlin 261 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo, Natural History Publications, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 628 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Camousseight. 1995. Revisión taxonómica del género Agathemera (Phasmatodea: Pseudophasmatidae) en Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomologica, Santiago (Rev. Chilena Ent.) 22:38 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Dominguez, Blas, Agrain, Roig-Juñent, Scollo & Debandi. 2009. Cladistic, biogeographic and environmental niche analysis of the species of Agathemera Stål (Phasmatida, Agathemeridae). Zootaxa 2308:43–57 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Klug & Bradler. 2006. The pregenital abdominal musculature in phasmids and its implications for the basal phylogeny of Phasmatodea (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 6(3):171 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world, The Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 42 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Redtenbacher. 1906. Phasmidae Areolatae. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden 1:88 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Vera, Pastenes, Veloso & Méndez. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Agathemera (Insecta: Phasmatodea) inferred from the genes 16S, COI and H3. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 165:63 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Bradler. 2009. Die Phylogenie der Stab- und Gespentschrecken (Insecta: Phasmatodea). Vol 2.1 Species, Phylogeny and Evolution, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 93 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Buckley, Attanayake & Bradler. 2009[2008]. Extreme convergence in stick insect evolution: phylogenetic placement of the Lord Howe Island tree lobster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Proc. R. Soc. B.) 276:1058 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Kirby. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae), The Trustees of the British Museum, London 1:402 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Sellick. 1998. The micropylar plate of the eggs of Phasmida, with a survey of the range of plate form within the order. Systematic Entomology 23:205 - via Phasmida Species File |
| Stål. 1875. Recensio orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, DeGeer et Thunberg. 3. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 32:56, 95 - via Phasmida Species File |
Agathemera
