Diapheromera
{{Short description|Genus of stick insects}}
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| image = Arizona Walkingstick - Flickr - treegrow (1).jpg
| image_caption = Diapheromera arizonensis
| taxon = Diapheromera
| authority = Gray, 1835
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Diapheromera is a genus of stick insects in the family Diapheromeridae. There are about 14 described species in Diapheromera.
{{Cite web| title=Diapheromera Genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/34510
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2018-03-04
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{{Cite web| title=Diapheromera Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=102387
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2018-03-04
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{{Cite web| title=Browse Diapheromera
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/b4706c1c88ed90e3008d8a6edd830903
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2018-03-04
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Species
These 14 species belong to the genus Diapheromera.
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- Diapheromera arizonensis Caudell, 1903 (Arizona walkingstick)
- Diapheromera beckeri Kaup, 1871
- Diapheromera calcarata (Burmeister, 1838)
- Diapheromera carolina Scudder, 1901 (Carolina walkingstick)
- Diapheromera covilleae Rehn & Hebard, 1909 (creosote bush walkingstick)
- Diapheromera erythropleura Hebard, 1923
- Diapheromera femorata (Say, 1824) (northern walkingstick)
- Diapheromera kevani Vickery, 1997
- Diapheromera nitens Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
- Diapheromera persimilis Caudell, 1904 (similar walkingstick)
- Diapheromera petita Vickery, 1997
- Diapheromera tamaulipensis Rehn, J.A.G., 1909 (tamaulipan walkingstick)
- Diapheromera torquata Hebard, 1934
- Diapheromera velii Walsh, 1864 (prairie walkingstick)}}
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Further reading
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. Jr.
| date = 2000
| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
| publisher = CRC Press
| volume = 2nd Edition
| isbn = 0-8493-0212-9
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Brock | first1 = Paul D.
| date = 1999
| title = The amazing world of stick and leaf-insects
| journal = The Amateur Entomologist
| publisher = The Amateur Entomologists' Society
| volume = 26
| isbn = 0-900054-63-8
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel
| last2 = Brock | first2 = Paul
| date = 2003
| title = Phasmida Species File: A Catalog of the Stick and Leaf Insects of the World
| publisher = The Orthopterists' Society
| isbn = 1-929014-03-1
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- {{Cite book
| last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel
| last2 = Brock | first2 = Paul
| date = 2005
| title = Phasmida Species File: Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the World
| publisher = Insect Diversity Association at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
| volume = Second Edition
| isbn = 1-929014-08-2
}}
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