The Gratidiini are a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
of
stick insect
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 ...
s based on the type genus ''
Clonaria'' (as an old synonym ''Gratidia'' Stål, 1875) and first used by Cliquennois in 2005. Genera are known to be distributed in: Africa, Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and various Pacific Islands.
[
This tribe was previously placed in the ]Pachymorphinae
Pachymorphinae is a subfamily of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. Genera are primarily found in Africa, Asia and Australia.
Tribes and genera
The ''Phasmida Species File'' lists two tribes (Gratidiini
The Gratidiini are a tribe of st ...
, but the current consensus (2022) is that it is better placed in the Bacilloidea
The Euphasmatodea, also known by its junior synonym Verophasmatodea is a suborder of the Phasmatodea, which contains the vast majority of the extant species of stick and leaf insects, excluding the Timematodea. The oldest record of Euphasmato ...
: either in the family Bacillidae
BacillidaeBrunner von Wattenwyl C (1893) ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova'' (2)13(33): 101. is a stick insect family in the order Phasmatodea and the suborder Verophasmatodea.
Subfamilies and Genera
The ''Ph ...
[ or a proposed new family "Gratidiidae".][Cliquennois (2020) In Aberlenc d. ''Les Insectes du Monde Biodiversité, classification, clés de détermination des familles'' 1: 419.]
Genera
The ''Phasmida Species File''[Phasmida Species File: tribe Gratidiini Cliquennois, 2005 (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 24 November 2022)]
/ref> lists:
# '' Adelungella'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
# '' Adelungella'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
# '' Burria'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1900
# '' Clonaria'' Stål, 1875
# '' Gharianus'' Werner, 1908
# '' Gratidiinilobus'' Brock, 2005
# '' Ladakhomorpha'' Hennemann & Conle, 1999
# ''Leptynia
''Leptynia'' is a genus of stick insects belonging to the tribe Gratidiini. The species of this genus are found in Iberian Peninsula.
Species
GBIF lists:
*''Leptynia acuta''
*''Leptynia annaepaulae''
*''Leptynia attenuata''
*''Leptynia capra ...
'' Pantel, 1890
# '' Linocerus'' Gray, 1835
# '' Macellina'' Uvarov, 1940
# '' Maransis'' Karsch, 1898
# '' Paragongylopus'' Chen & He, 1997
# '' Phthoa'' Karsch, 1898
# '' Pijnackeria'' Scali, 2009
# '' Sceptrophasma'' Brock & Seow-Choen, 2000
# '' Zangphasma'' Chen & He, 2008
# '' Zehntneria'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
References
External Links
*
*
{{Taxonbar, from=Q21230443, from2=Q116164626
Phasmatodea tribes