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genus Megaphasma Caudell, 1903

• Distribution:
  •  Northern America: Iowa and Indiana to Texas and Louisiana; Mexico
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (16):
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 26:878   >> Megaphasma    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:3061
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:347   >> Note: Diaphomerinae >> Megaphasma
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of Northeastern America: with especial reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 142   >> Megaphasma
  • Bradley, J.C. & Galil. 1977. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 79(2):180   >> Note: in Heteronemiinae: Heteronemiini >> Megaphasma
  • Sellick. 1997. Systematic Entomology 22:119   >> Note: Key to eggs of genera [but figs often without reference to species] >> Megaphasma
  • Otte. 1997. In Poole & Gentili [Ed.]. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A check list of the insects of North America. Volume 4 Non-holometabolous orders 638   >> Note: in checklist of insects of North America >> Megaphasma
  • Zompro. 1998. Revision nearktischer und neotropischer Genera der Insektenordnung Phasmatodea, insbesondere der Familie Heteronemiidae sensu Bradley & Galil 50   >> Note: [Unpublished thesis] >> Megaphasma
  • Zompro. 2001. Revue suisse de Zoologie 108(1):208   >> Note: Diapheromerinae: Diapheromerini: Diapheromera group >> Megaphasma
  • Bragg. 2001. Phasmids of Borneo 637   >> Note: type species data >> Megaphasma
  • Zompro. 2004. Revision of the genera of the Areolatae, including the status of Timema and Agathemera (Insecta, Phasmatodea) 314   >> Note: type species data [as dentricus [sic]] >> Megaphasma
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 198   >> Note: Phasma is neuter, hence corrections in endings of species names >> Megaphasma
  • Arment [Ed.]. 2006. Stick Insects of the Continental United States and Canada: species and early studies 29   >> Megaphasma
  • Bradler. 2009. Die Phylogenie der Stab- und Gespentschrecken (Insecta: Phasmatodea). Vol 2.1 Species, Phylogeny and Evolution 2.1:3   >> Note: in proposed rank-free Eusermyleformia, which is part of proposed rank-free Sermyleformia >> Megaphasma
  • López-Mora & Llorente-Bousquets. 2018. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:48   >> Note: in checklist of species from Mexico >> Megaphasma
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 513   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Megaphasma
  • Luna. 2022. Phasmid Studies 21:92   >> Note: Checklist of North American phasmids >> Megaphasma
• Type species:  Diapheromera denticrus Stål, by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species denticrus (Stål, 1875)
• synonym armata (Piza, 1973)
• synonym denticus Sellick, 1988
• synonym dentricus (Caudell, 1903)
• species furcatum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907)

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