“…An outbreak of these insects will erode a whole mountain forest and can even wreak havoc on surrounding crops. However, most studies of Phasmatodea have focused on taxonomy ( Yang et al, 2021 ), biology ( Gao et al, 2020 ), morphology ( Everts, 2016 ), bionics ( Pan et al, 2021 ; Kobayashi et al, 2022 ), prevention and control ( Xu et al, 2021b ; Yano et al, 2021 ), but the genera of Phasmatodea within the Polyneoptera family, and the evolutionary relationship between them remain unclear, particularly for highly diverse arthropods.…”