Anatomie des Pterothorax der Phasmatodea, Mantophasmatodea und Embioptera und seine Bedeutung für die Phylogenie der Polyneoptera (Insecta)

External macro- and micromorphology of the male of the stick insect Hermarchus leytensis (Insecta: Phasmatodea) with phylogenetic considerations

“…that possibly represents the sister group to the rest of the Euphasmatodea grouped in the clade Neophasmatidae by Bradler [18]. Valuable information on euphasmatodean morphology have been provided for the head [17,[19][20][21][22], the pterothorax [23,24], the locomotory attachment system [13,[25][26][27], the muscle and nerve arrangement of mid-abdominal segments [12], the eggshell [28][29][30][31][32][33][34], and the male genitalia of the genus Oxyartes [35]. Recently, a noteworthy contribution in this field has been made by Bradler [18], who reviewed 92 morphological characters developing a matrix to analyze the phylogenetic relationships between 89 selected species.…”