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genus Megra Campion, 1923

• Nomenclatural details:   Nomen novum (Junior homonym is Brachycercus)
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (6):
  • Campion. 1923. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11:518   >> Note: new name for Brachycercus >> Megra    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:39219
  • Willemse, C. 1955[1956]. Publ. natuurhist. Genootsch. Limburg 8:85 >> Megra
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1966. Pacific Insects 8(3):701 >> Megra
  • Kevan, D.K.M. [Ed.]. 1977. In Beier [Ed.]. Orthopterorum Catalogus 16:103 >> Megra
  • Otte, D. 1994. Orthoptera Species File 3:13 >> Note: only member of Megra Group >> Megra
  • Yin, X.-C., J. Shi & Z. Yin. 1996. Synonymic Catalogue of Grasshoppers and their Allies of the World (Orthoptera: Caelifera) 394 >> Megra
• Type species:  Brachycercus flavum Willemse, C. (= Megra flava), inherited from replaced name
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Brachycercus Willemse, 1922
• species flava (Willemse, 1922)
• synonym novaeguineae (Ramme, 1941)
• species trimaculata Willemse, 1955

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