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synonym Megalodon Brullé, 1835

• Nomenclatural details:   Preoccupied (Nomen novum is Eumegalodon), Not Megalodon of Sowerby 1827 (Mollusca), Agassiz 1834 (fish)
• Citations (7):
  • Brullé. 1835. In Audouin & Brullé. Histoire naturelle des insectes 9 [1] (5):156   >> Megalodon    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:17686
  • Redtenbacher. 1891. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 41:356   >> Megalodon
  • Brongniart. 1892. Bull. Soc. entomol. Fr. 60:CLXXVI >> Note: synonym (new name) >> Eumegalodon
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:289   >> Note: synonym >> Lesina
  • Karny. 1907. Abh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 4(3):6   >> Note: synonym >> Eumegalodon
  • de Jong, C. 1942. Zool. Mededelingen (Leiden) 23(3-4):264   >> Note: synonym >> Lesina
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:29 >> Note: synonym >> Lesina
• Type species:  Megalodon ensifer Brullé (= Lesina ensifera ensifera), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

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