Genus Megacrania Kaup, 1871

This genus has species recorded from many Pacific islands, all living only on Pandanus tectaris. Only two Australian species are known, but there is some suggestion they are actually the same species.

Distribution

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Extralimital distribution: SE Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomon Ils and Fiji, see Kirby, W.F, (1904). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. 1. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, el Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London: Longmans & Co. x 501 pp. [385].

References

Balderson, J., Rentz, D.C.F. and Roach, A.M.E. (1998). in Houston, W.K.K. & Wells, A. (1998) (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 23. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia (ISBN 0643 06035 9). pp. 347 - 376.
Bradley, J.C., and Galil, B.S. (1977). The taxonomic arrangement of the Phasmatodea with keys to the subfamilies and tribes. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 79(2): 176-208.
Kaup, J.J. (1871). Neue Phasmidae. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 15: 25-42.
Key, K.H.L. (1957). Kentromorphic phases in three species of Phasmatodea. Australian Journal of Zoology 5: 247-284
Key, K.H.L. (1970). Phasmatodea (Stick-insects). pp. 394-404 in CSIRO (ed.) The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, Vol. 1, 1st Edn.
Rentz, D.C.F (1996). Grasshopper Country, Chapter 16, Phasmatodea: Leaf and Stick Insects, pp. 244-257
Tepper, J.G.O. (1902). List of the Described Genera and Species of the Australian and Polynesian Phasmidæ (Spectre-Insects). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26: 278-287.
Vickery, V.R. (1983). Catalogue of Australian stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatodea, Phasmatoptera, or Cheleutoptera). CSIRO Australian Division of Entomology Technical Paper, No. 20, 15 pp.