Plants and animals are often adorned with potentially conspicuous colours (eg red, yellow,
orange, blue, purple). These include the dazzling colours of fruits and flowers, the brilliant …

Phasmatodea comprises over 3,000 extant species and stands out as one of the last
remaining insect orders for which a robust, higher-level phylogenetic hypothesis is lacking …

Background The re-evolution of complex characters is generally considered impossible, yet,
studies of recent years have provided several examples of phenotypic reversals shown to …

Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large terrestrial herbivorous arthropods known for
masquerading as plant parts such as bark, twigs and leaves. Their evolutionary history is …

The concept that complex ancestral traits can never be recovered after their loss is still
widely accepted, despite phylogenetic and molecular approaches suggest instances where …

Phasmatodea species diversity lies almost entirely within its suborder Euphasmatodea,
which exhibits a pantropical distribution and is considered to derive from a recent and rapid …

Simple Summary Twenty-seven complete mitochondrial genomes of Phasmatodea have
been published in the NCBI. To shed light on the intra-ordinal and inter-ordinal relationships …

Simple Summary Stick and leaf insects are herbivorous species widely distributed in tropical
and subtropical areas, disguising themselves as leaves, twigs, or moss through morphology …

Stick and leaf insects are a group among the Insecta that are famous for their extraordinary
mimicry ability. Since the establishment of the Phasmatodea, their internal classification has …

Stick insects have received little attention in Brazil, with many taxa lacking taxonomic,
biological and morphological information on the literature. This represents a gap of …