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Acanthoxylini
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Acanthoxylini

Acanthoxylini is a tribe of Phasmatodeas (stick insects and relatives). They belong to the "typical" stick insects of the superfamily Anareolatae, though they are rather notable among these. For example, the New Zealand giant stick insect (the only species of Argosarchus) is huge, and all Acanthoxyla are females reproducing by parthenogenesis.

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5 branches of this tribe, most-observed first

Acanthoxyla

genusAcanthoxyla

Clitarchus

genusClitarchus

Argosarchus

genusArgosarchus

Tepakiphasma

genusTepakiphasma

Pseudoclitarchus

genusPseudoclitarchus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 536346.