Timematodea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Anartioptera
Magnordo: Polyorthoptera
Superordo: Orthopterida
Ordo: Phasmatodea
Subordo: Timematodea
Familia: Timematidae
References

Paul D. Brock 2009: Phasmida Species File (Version 2.1/3.5) [1]

Timematodea is a small suborder of stick insects, believed to be the earliest branch of the group. It contains only one living genus, Timema, known from the western United States, as well as two fossil genera, Granosicorpes and Tumefactipes from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar, all three of which are assigned to the family Timematidae. Another genus, Electrotimema from the Eocene aged Baltic amber has also been assigned to the suborder, but this placement is tenative as key diagnostic characters of the family were not noted in its description.[1] Key diagnostic characters of the family include trimerous tarsi.[1]
References

Chen, Sha; Deng, Shi‐Wo; Shih, Chungkun; Zhang, Wei‐Wei; Zhang, Peng; Ren, Dong; Zhu, Yi‐Ning; Gao, Tai‐Ping (October 2019). "The earliest Timematids in Burmese amber reveal diverse tarsal pads of stick insects in the mid‐Cretaceous". Insect Science. 26 (5): 945–957. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12601. ISSN 1672-9609.