| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals |
| subregnum | Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 |
| divisio | Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 |
| subdivisio | Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes |
| phylum | Arthropoda - Arthropods |
| subphylum | Hexapoda Blainville, 1816 |
| class | Insecta - Insects |
| subclass | Pterygota |
| infraclass | Neoptera Martynov, 1923 |
| cohors | Polyneoptera |
| order | Phasmatodea Brunner, 1893 - walking sticks and leaf insects |
| suborder | Areolatae Redtenbacher, 1906 |
| family | Bacillidae Redtenbacher, 1906 |
| subfamily | Bacillinae |
| tribus | Bacillini Günther, 1953 |
| genus | Bacillus Audinet-Serville, 1831 |
| species | Bacillus rossius (Rossi, 1788) |
| subspecies | Bacillus rossius rossius (Rossi, 1788) |