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synonym Macracantha Kirby, 1904

• Nomenclatural details:   Nomen nudum, Preoccupied (Nomen novum is Acanthoxyla), Nomen novum (Junior homonym is Acanthoderus), Not Macracantha of Simon 1864 (Araneae)
• Citations (11):
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:340   >> Note: New name for Acanthoderus Hutton >> Macracantha
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. The Zoologist 4 14:197   >> Note: in UK >> Macracantha
  • Karny. 1923. Treubia 3(2):236   >> Macracantha
  • Günther. 1932. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 17:756   >> Note: Pachymorphinae >> Macracantha
  • Uvarov. 1944. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. 13:95   >> Note: Preoccupied, renamed >> Acanthoxyla
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):192   >> Note: Phasmatinae: Acanthoxylini >> Acanthoxyla
  • Salmon. 1991. The stick insects of New Zealand 57 >> Acanthoxyla
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 625   >> Note: type species data >> Acanthoxyla
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 313   >> Note: type species data >> Acanthoxyla
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 38   >> Acanthoxyla
  • Brock & Jewell. 2015. PSG Newsletter 134:13  
• Type species:  Acanthoderus prasinus Westwood (= Acanthoxyla prasina), by original designation
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

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