This site illustrates phasmid eggs with photographs. Ootaxonomy is one of the most interesting ways to identify phasmid species.
If you have other species, and a surplus of eggs, please send some to me, even if the eggs won’t hatch!
All the pictures are copyrighted and cannot be used for any purpose without the permission of the author (that’s me).
Click on the family name to see the species description and pictures (listed by family).
Order Phasmatodea (=Phasmida)
| Suborder | Family | Subfamily | Tribe | scientific name |
| Areolatae | Bacillidae | Bacillinae | Bacillini | Clonopsis gallica |
| Heteropteryginae | Datamini | Dares validispinus. | ||
| Dares verrucosus | ||||
| Epidares nolimetangere | ||||
| Heteropterygini | Heteropteryx dilatata | |||
| Obrimini | Aretaon asperrimus | |||
| Sungaya inexpectata | ||||
| Pseudophasmatidae | Pseudophasmatinae | Pseudophasmatini | Paraphasma rufipes | |
| Anareolatae | Heteronemiidae | Heteronemiinae | Heteronemini | Oreophoetes peruana |
| Libethrini | Libethra regularis | |||
| Lonchodini | Carausius morosus | |||
| Chondrostethus woodfordi | ||||
| Neohirasea maerens | ||||
| Necrosciinae | Phaenopharos herwardenii | |||
| Sipyloidea sipylus | ||||
| Phasmatidae | Cladomorphinae | Hesperophasmatini | Lamponius guerini | |
| Eurycanthinae | Eurycantha calcarata | |||
| Phasmatinae | Baculini | Baculum sp. PSG 157 | ||
| Baculum artemis | ||||
| Baculum extradentatum | ||||
| Pharnaciini | Phobaeticus serratipes | |||
| Tirachoidea sumatranus? | ||||
| Phasmatini | Acrophylla wuelfingi | |||
| Tropidoderinae | Extatosoma tiaratum | |||
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Last update: 30-01-2000