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genus Meruana Sjöstedt, 1910

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (7):
  • Sjöstedt. 1910[1909]. In Sjöstedt [Ed.]. Abteilung 15-22. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas, 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt 3:181   >> Meruana    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:49367
  • Johnston, H.B. 1956. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers 228 >> Note: Catantopinae: Leptacres >> Meruana
  • Dirsh. 1958. Rev. Ent. Moçambique 1:239 >> Note: synonym >> Leptacris
  • Johnston, H.B. 1968. Annotated catalogue of African grasshoppers Suppl:154 >> Meruana
  • Otte, D. 1995. Orthoptera Species File 4:84 >> Note: synonym >> Leptacris
  • Grunshaw. 1996. Jour. Orth. Res. 5:149 >> Note: M. usambarica as type species >> Meruana
  • Rowell, C. Hugh Fraser & C. Hemp. 2017. Jago's Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa. Volume 2. Acrididae: Teratodinae, Hemiacridinae, Spathosterninae, Tropidopolinae, Calliptaminae, Oxyinae, Coptacrinae, and Eyprepocnemidinae 35 >> Note: key to species >> Meruana
• Type species:  Meruana nyuki Sjöstedt (= usambarica), by original monotypy
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• species sakuensis (Kevan, 1966)
• species usambarica (Karsch, 1896)
• synonym nyuki Sjöstedt, 1910

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