Lonchodinae

The Lonchodinae are a subfamily of stick insects in the family Lonchodidae found in: Australasia, Asia, Africa, Southern America and the Pacific.

Lonchodinae
Eurycantha horrida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Subfamily: Lonchodinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

The subfamilies Necrosciinae and Lonchodinae, formerly part of Diapheromeridae, were determined to make up a separate family and were transferred to the re-established family Lonchodidae in 2018.[1]

Tribes and genera

The Phasmida Species File[2] lists two established tribes:

Eurycanthini

Authority: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

  • Asprenas Stål, 1875
  • Brachyrtacus Sharp, 1898
  • Canachus (insect) Stål, 1875
  • Carlius Uvarov, 1939
  • Dryococelus Gurney, 1947
  • Erinaceophasma Zompro, 2001
  • Eupromachus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
  • Eurycantha Boisduval, 1835
  • Labidiophasma Carl, 1915
  • Microcanachus Donskoff, 1988
  • Neopromachus Giglio-Tos, 1912
  • Oreophasma Günther, 1929
  • Paracanachus Carl, 1915
  • Symetriophasma Hennemann & Conle, 1996
  • Thaumatobactron Günther, 1929
  • Trapezaspis Redtenbacher, 1908

Lonchodini

Authority: Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (synonym Menexenini)

Carausius morosus
  • Acanthomenexenus
  • Austrocarausius
  • Breviphetes
  • Carausius (insect)
  • Chondrostethus
  • Cladomimus
  • Denhama
  • Echinothorax
  • Greenia
  • Hermagoras (insect)
  • Hyrtacus (insect)
  • Lonchodes (insect)
  • Lonchodiodes
  • Manduria (insect)
  • Matutumetes
  • Menexenus (insect)
  • Mithrenes (insect)
  • Mnesilochus
  • Mortites
  • Myronides (insect)
  • Paraprisomera
  • Pericentropsis
  • Pericentrus
  • Periphetes (insect)
  • Phenacephorus
  • Phenacocephalus
  • Phraortes (insect)
  • Prisomera
  • Pseudostheneboea
  • Spinophetes
  • Stheneboea (insect)

Incertae Sedis and Re-Named
  • Megalophasma Bi, 1995
    • Megalophasma asperatum (Bates, 1865)
    • Megalophasma granulatum Bi, 1995
  • Papuacocelus papuanus Hennemann & Conle, 2006

The tribe Neohiraseini Hennemann & Conle, 2008 is now considered a junior synonym in the family Diapheromeridae: subfamily Necrosciinae.

References
  1. Robertson, James A.; Bradler, Sven; Whiting, Michael F. (2018). "Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea)". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00216.
  2. Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)
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