''Anchiale''Stål C (1875) ''Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar'' 32:36, 84. is a genus of

stick insects The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as ...

in the family

Phasmatidae The Phasmatidae are a family of the stick insects ( order Phasmatodea). They belong to the superfamily Anareolatae of suborder Verophasmatodea. Like many of their relatives, the Phasmatidae are capable of regenerating limbs and commonly repr ...

and tribe

Phasmatini PhasmatiniLeach (1815) In Brewster, D. ''The Edinburgh Encyclopedia'' 9: 119. is a tribe of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. There are more than 40 described species, found in Australasia, Asia and possibly Brazil. Genera These genera b ...

. Species have a known distribution from

Australasia Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologica ...

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type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

, ''A. maculata'', was originally thought to be a

Mantis Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha ...

Species

''Anchiale'' includes the following species: # '' Anchiale austrotessulata'' Brock & Hasenpusch, 2007 # '' Anchiale briareus'' (Gray, 1834) # '' Anchiale buruense'' Hennemann, Conle & Suzuki, 2015 # '' Anchiale caesarea'' (Redtenbacher, 1908) # '' Anchiale confusa'' Sharp, 1898 # '' Anchiale grayi'' (Montrouzier, 1855) # '' Anchiale insularis'' Kirby, 1904 # '' Anchiale longipennis'' (Montrouzier, 1855) # '' Anchiale maculata'' (Olivier, 1792) - type species (as ''Mantis maculata'' Olivier, AG) # '' Anchiale marmorata'' (Redtenbacher, 1908) # '' Anchiale modesta'' Redtenbacher, 1908 # '' Anchiale reticulata'' (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) # '' Anchiale simplex'' Redtenbacher, 1908 # '' Anchiale spinicollis'' (Gray, 1833) # '' Anchiale stolli'' Sharp, 1898 # '' Anchiale tessulata'' (Goeze, 1778)

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10410854 Phasmatodea genera Phasmatidae Phasmatodea of Asia