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Genus Bostra Stål, 1875
Synonymy
Bostra Stål, 1875a, Bihang Kongl Svenska Vet-Akad Handl 2 (17): 6, 13
        [ Type species:  Bacteria turgida Westwood, 1859, by original monotypy. ]
    Stål, 1875b, Recensio Orthopterorum: 24, 79
    Rehn, 1904a, Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia 1904: 57, 60
    Rehn, 1904b, 514
    Kirby, 1904c, Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. I: 350
    Rehn, 1905c, Proc Acad Nat Sci Philadelphia 1905: 795
    Redtenbacher, 1908, Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden: 399, 406
    Shelford, 1908, Biologia Centrali Americana, Phasmidae: 355, 359
    Rehn, 1909, Catalogue of Orthoptera of Cuba and the Isle of Pines: 199
    Giglio-Tos, 1910, Boll Mus Zool Anat Comp XXV (625): 39
    Rehn & Hebard, 1938, Trans American Ent Soc LXIV: 41
Pseudobacteria Karny, 1923, Treubia III (2): 239 (partim)
        [ Nec Saussure, 1872. ]
    deToledo Piza, 1938, Rev de Ent 7 (1): 42
    Beier, 1957, Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs: 435

Systematic notes: 
This genus is not, as proposed by Karny (1923), a synonym of Pseudobacteria Saussure, 1872, and must stand as a valid genus.

Systematic position: 
Superfamily Phasmatoidea
  Family Phibalosomatidae
    Subfamily Phibalosomatinae
      Tribe Hesperophasmatini

List of species
1 Bostra dorsuaria Stål, 1875  
2 Bostra lobata Redtenbacher, 1908  
3 Bostra arcuata Redtenbacher, 1908  
4 Bostra imperialis Redtenbacher, 1908  
5 Bostra trugida (Westwood, 1859)  
6 Bostra vacca Redtenbacher, 1908  
7 Bostra reductedentata Redtenbacher, 1908  
8 Bostra ? faunus (Westwood, 1859)  
9 Bostra submutica Redtenbacher, 1908  
10 Bostra jugalis Rehn, 1904
  syn:  B. amplectens Redtenbacher, 1908
  syn:  B. obtusecornuta Redtenbacher, 1908
  syn:  B. longeoperculata Redtenbacher, 1908 		 
11 Bostra scabrinota Redtenbacher, 1908  
12 Bostra tabida Redtenbacher, 1908  
13 Bostra magistralis Redtenbacher, 1908  
14 Bostra championi Redtenbacher, 1908  
15 Bostra mirata Redtenbacher, 1908  
16 Bostra nuptialis Redtenbacher, 1908  
17 Bostra jaliscensis Rehn, 1904
  syn:  B. similis Redtenbacher, 1908 		 
18 Bostra incompta Redtenbacher, 1908  
19 Bostra magnifica Redtenbacher, 1908  
20 Bostra godmani Redtenbacher, 1908  
21 Bostra saussurei Redtenbacher, 1908  
22 Bostra pruinosa Redtenbacher, 1908  
23 Bostra procoppi Redtenbacher, 1908  
24 Bostra tridenticulata Redtenbacher, 1908  
25 Bostra margaritata Redtenbacher, 1908  
26 Bostra bifida Redtenbacher, 1908  
27 Bostra ? foliacea (Blanchard, xxxx)  
28 Bostra remiformis Rehn, 1904  
29 Bostra intermedia Carl, 1913  
30 Bostra colombiae Hebard, xxxx  
31 Bostra aetolus (Westwood, 1859)  
32 Bostra culmus (Bates, 1865)  
33 Bostra cyrtocnemis (Bates, 1865)  
34 Bostra pastazae Hebard, xxxx  

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