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Definition of Phasmida
1. Noun. In some classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera: stick insects; leaf insects.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Phasmid, Phasmid Insect, Family Phasmatidae, Family Phasmidae, Phasmatidae, Phasmidae, Family Phillidae, Family Phyllidae, Phillidae, Phyllidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phasmida
Literary usage of Phasmida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... THE WALKING STICKS • (Family phasmida.) The insects of this family present
some of the most striking forms known among the Hexapoda. ..."
2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1877)
"phasmida,—Westwood's Illustrated Catalogue of the phasmidae of the British Museum,
4to, 1859 (Latin and English). ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"On the change to the imago the limb had regained its full size. Mr. Fortnum adds,
that the young phasmida invariably eat the old skin after moulting. ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"three dimensions, rather than merely in a single plane. The lines of descent of
the phasmida and ... phasmida, Orthoptera (sensu stricto), etc. ..."
5. List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum by George Robert Gray (1848)
"1829. ology of Australia. Parti. phasmida:. ByG. R. GRAY, KLS 4*0. i of species
of phasmida;. By GR Gray, FLS STO. of Diurnal Lepidoptera. ..."
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