Raphidium Westwood 1854 (stick insect)

Insecta - Phasmatodea

Synonym: Ela Giebel 1856 [objective synonym]

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Parent taxon: Phasmoidea according to A. Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Areolatae, Chresmododea, Euphasmatodea, Necrophasmatodea, Pterophasmatidae, Timematodea

Subtaxa: Raphidium brephos

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection] (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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