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genus Megacrania Kaup, 1871

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• Distribution:
  •  Australasia, Asia
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (34):
  • Kaup. 1871. Berliner Entomologische Zeitung 15:38   >> Megacrania    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4825
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:385   >> Note: Acrophyllinae; type species designation >> Megacrania
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:370   >> Megacrania
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:624 >> Note: Phasmidae: Cladoxerinae >> Megacrania
  • Shiraki. 1935. Mem. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Imp. Univ, Formosa 14(3):70   >> Megacrania
  • Ragge. 1955. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society, London 106(9):377   >> Note: Wing-venation >> Megacrania
  • Nakata. 1961. Pacific Insects Monograph 2:117   >> Note: List of species in Pacific Islands >> Megacrania
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):191   >> Note: Platycraninae >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1979. Systematic Entomology 4:327   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [figs without reference to species] >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1980. University of London, Unpublished thesis 104   >> Note: Egg [unpublished thesis] >> Megacrania
  • Vickery. 1983. CSIRO Australian division of Entomology, Technical Paper No 20 8   >> Megacrania
  • Carlberg. 1986. Zool. Anz. 216(1/2):8 >> Note: Biology >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1987[1986]. In Mazzini & Scali [Ed.]. Stick Insects: Phylogeny and reproduction. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Stick Insects, Siena 137, fig >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1988. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 93:280   >> Note: In checklist of eggs studied by SEM >> Megacrania
  • Preston-Mafham, K. 1990. Grasshoppers and mantids of the world 83 >> Note: note on egglaying behaviour >> Megacrania
  • Hsiung. 1991. Oriental Insects 25:172   >> Note: Key to species >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:118   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Megacrania
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):98   >> Megacrania
  • Sellick. 1998. Systematic Entomology 23:222   >> Note: Micropylar plate >> Megacrania
  • Harman. 2000[1999]. Phasmid Studies 8(1&2):13   >> Megacrania
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 401, 637   >> Note: key to Bornean species, type species data >> Megacrania
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 314   >> Note: type species data >> Megacrania
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 197   >> Megacrania
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2007. Studies on the Australian stick insects (Phasmida), including a checklist of species and bibliography 1570:74   >> Megacrania
  • Hsiung. 2007. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 16(2):208   >> Note: revision, keys to species >> Megacrania
  • Chen, S.C. & Y.H. He. 2008. Phasmatodea of China 355 [English 455]   >> Megacrania
  • Brock & Hasenpusch. 2009. The Complete Field Guide to Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia 172   >> Megacrania
  • Krijns. 2009. Phasma 19(72):19 >> Note: rearing >> Megacrania
  • Hsiung. 2011[2010]. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 19(2):381   >> Note: of Malo, New Hebrides; key to species >> Megacrania
  • Hsiung. 2013. Jour. of Orthoptera Res. 22(1):67   >> Note: of Japan >> Megacrania
  • Seow-Choen. 2016. A taxonomic guide to the stick insects of Borneo 321   >> Megacrania
  • Ichikawa. 2016. In Machida & Japan Orthopteran Society [Ed.]. The standard of Polyneoptera in Japan 191   >> Megacrania
  • Hennemann. 2020. Zootaxa 4896(2):151   >> Note: Transferred from Platycraniinae to Megacraniinae >> Megacrania
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 555   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Megacrania
• Type species:  Platycrania phelaus Westwood, by subsequent designation; authority:  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:1-501
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Megacraniinae Hennemann, 2020.

• species alpheus (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym bakeri Willemse, 1925
• species artus Hsiung, 2003
• species batesii Kirby, 1896
• synonym batesi Redtenbacher, 1908
• species brocki Hsiung, 2002
• species nigrosulfurea Redtenbacher, 1908
• species obscurus Hsiung, 2007
• species phelaus (Westwood, 1859)
• synonym phelans Günther, 1937
• species rentzi Hsiung, 2002
• species speiseri Carl, 1915
• species spina Hsiung, 2007
• species tsudai Shiraki, 1933
• synonym adan Yamasaki, 1991
• species vickeri Hsiung, 2003
• species wegneri Willemse, 1955

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