Phasma

Genus of stick insects

This article is about a genus of stick insects. For the fictional Star Wars character, see Captain Phasma. For the Italian artist, see Fasma.

Phasma

Phasma gigas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Phasmatodea
Family:  | Phasmatidae
Tribe:  | Phasmatini
Genus:  | Phasma
Lichtenstein, 1796
Synonyms

* Cyphocrana Peletier de Saint Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828
* Cyphocrania Burmeister, 1838

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Phasma[1] is a genus of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae, subfamily Phasmatinae and tribe Phasmatini. It is found in Wallacea & New Guinea.

## Species

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The Catalogue of Life lists:[1]

* Phasma gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) – type species (as Phasma empusa Lichtenstein)
* Phasma marosense Hennemann, 1998
* Phasma reinwardtii Haan, 1842

## Additional images

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* Adult female Phasma reinwardtii specimen

## References

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1. ^ a b Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.

## External links

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* Media related to Phasma at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Phasma|

* Wikidata: Q10626677
* Wikispecies: Phasma
* CoL: 8NXG6
* EoL: 106758
* GBIF: 1411210
* iNaturalist: 742723
* NCBI: 524009
* Open Tree of Life: 940888
* Phasmida Species File (old): 1201386