Definition of Family Phasmidae

1. Noun. Stick insects.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Phasmidae

family Peridiniidae
family Peripatidae
family Peripatopsidae
family Peronosporaceae
family Pertusariaceae
family Petromyzontidae
family Pezizaceae
family Phaethontidae
family Phalacrocoracidae
family Phalangeridae
family Phalangiidae
family Phalaropidae
family Phallaceae
family Phasianidae
family Phasmatidae
family Phasmidae (current term)
family Phillidae
family Phocidae
family Phoenicopteridae
family Phoeniculidae
family Pholadidae
family Pholidae
family Pholididae
family Phthiriidae
family Phyllidae
family Phyllocladaceae
family Phyllostomatidae
family Phyllostomidae
family Phylloxeridae
family Physeteridae

Literary usage of Family Phasmidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"( Walking-sticks^) more grotesque in appearance than the are the insects constituting the family Phasmidae, and commonly known as Walking-sticks, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"... family Phasmidae," by James AG Rehn. (December 12, 1903.) "A Collection of Fishes from Sumatra," by Henry W. Fowler. (December, 1903. ..."

3. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The family Phasmidae includes those remarkable creatures which are so much like twigs and leaves that they have been called walking sticks and leaf insects. ..."

4. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Phasmidae (The Walking-Sticks) The Phasmids arc generally called "walking-sticks." Their bodies are usually long and stick-like, due largely to their ..."

5. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture by Nitya Gopal Mukerji (1901)
"(2) To the family Phasmidae belong the stick-insects and leaf-insects, with long slender bodies and legs, some of which are wingless. ..."

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