Species

Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859)

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv. of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv. of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., lateral view of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., lateral view of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., data labels of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., data labels of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., data labels [square label reversed] of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female juv., data labels [square label reversed] of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, lateral view of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, lateral view of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559739; 5af4de94-1acf-4d4e-8592-187154a1ab36: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels [square label reversed] of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1559740; 15a8e9e2-4bb7-4d24-a7ee-06bf976abf6a: copyright Natural History Museum, London. female, data labels [square label reversed] of Platycrania alpheus (paralectotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female: head & thorax, dorsal view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female: head & thorax, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female: end of abdomen, dorsal view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1559741; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d: copyright OXUM. female: end of abdomen, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1562858; 38d4d552-3136-4e0b-9115-112e2590d4e2: copyright OXUM. Synonym Megacrania bakeri female (paratype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1562859; b118c06a-cab4-41dd-b7cf-015d9e64251c: copyright OXUM. Synonym Megacrania bakeri female (paratype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1562858; 38d4d552-3136-4e0b-9115-112e2590d4e2: copyright OXUM. female of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratypes, including nymph). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1562859; b118c06a-cab4-41dd-b7cf-015d9e64251c: copyright OXUM. female of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratypes, including nymph). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1562858; 38d4d552-3136-4e0b-9115-112e2590d4e2: copyright OXUM. female, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratypes, including nymph). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1562859; b118c06a-cab4-41dd-b7cf-015d9e64251c: copyright OXUM. female, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratypes, including nymph). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1562858; 38d4d552-3136-4e0b-9115-112e2590d4e2: copyright OXUM. female, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratype). (CollectionObject).;CollectionObject 1562859; b118c06a-cab4-41dd-b7cf-015d9e64251c: copyright OXUM. female, lateral view of synonym Megacrania bakeri (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (33)

Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859: 112, pl. 4:2. (valid)
Lectotype; female; 40eae790-762c-43d9-a630-df5f6eeb06b4; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sri Lanka: [believed to be in error, probably Philippines]
Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859 in Bates, 1865: 347.
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Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Kirby, 1896: 471. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Kirby, 1904: 385. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Redtenbacher, 1908: 370. Phylogeny or classification; Image or description
Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859 (subjective synonym of Megacrania batesii Kirby, 1896) in Bruner, 1915: 233.
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Bruner, 1915: 233-234. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925: 523.
Holotype; female; 8211705f-dec3-48aa-956f-d20000edad2d; deposited at: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM); Vanuatu: New Hebrides
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Günther, 1929: 624. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925 (subjective synonym of Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859) in Günther, 1935: 126. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Günther, 1937: 5. Specimen or distribution
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Yasumatsu, 1942: 11, fig. 15. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Willemse, 1950: 328. Specimen or distribution
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925 (subjective synonym of Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859) in Willemse, 1955: 44.
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Willemse, 1955: 41. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Wegner, 1955: 44. Life zone and ecology data; Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Nakata, 1961: 117. Specimen or distribution
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925 in Willemse, 1966: 31.
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Bedford, 1978: 126. Behavior
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Sellick, 1980: 102, fig. 52. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Hsiung, 1991: 172. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Langlois, 1995: 27. Behavior
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Sellick, 1998: 228. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Herwaarden, 1998: 98. Specimen or distribution
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Zompro, 2000: 61. Specimen or distribution
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Bragg, 2001: 402. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925 (subjective synonym of Platycrania [sic] alpheus Westwood, 1859) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 197.
Megacrania alpheus alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Otte & Brock, 2005: 197.
Megacrania bakeri Willemse, 1925 in Hsiung, 2007: 207.
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Hsiung, 2007: 210. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Kômoto, Yukuhiro, Ueda & Tomita, 2011: 45. Phylogeny or classification

Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Brock, Marshall, Beccaloni & Harman, 2016: 159. Phylogeny or classification
Megacrania alpheus (Westwood, 1859) in Brock & Büscher, 2022: 555. Phylogeny or classification

Nomenclature references (29)

Bates, H.W. (1865) Descriptions of fifty-two new species of Phasmidae from the collection of Mr W. Wilson Saunders, with remarks on the family. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 25(2), 321–359, pls. 44–46. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87719#page/366/mode/1up
Bedford, G.O. (1978) Biology and ecology of the Phasmatodea. Annual Review of Entomology, 23, 125–149. Available at http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.en.23.010178.001013
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Bragg, P.E. (2001) Phasmids of Borneo. Natural History Publications, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 771 pp. Available at http://www.nhpborneo.com/book/phasmids-of-borneo/

Brock, P.D. & Büscher, T.H. (2022) Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids. NAP Editions, France: Verrières-le-Buisson, 612 pp. Available at http://www.napeditions.com/en/67-stick-and-leaf-insects-of-the-world.html

Brock, P.D., Marshall, J.A., Beccaloni, G.W. & Harman, A.J.E. (2016) The types of Phasmida in the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Zootaxa, 4179(2), 151–208. Available at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/309585799_The_types_of_Phasmida_in_the_Natural_History_Museum_London_UK

Bruner, L. (1915) Preliminary catalogue of the orthopteroid insects of the Philippine Islands. University studies of the University of Lincoln, Nebraska, 15(2), 195–281. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94891#page/266/mode/1up

Günther, K. (1929) Die Phasmoiden der Deutschen Kaiserin Augusta-Fluss-Expedition 1912/13. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Phasmoidenfauna Neuguineas. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 14, 600–747, pl. 1–7.

Günther, K. (1935) Über einige Phasmoiden aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr. C. Willemse, Eijgelshoven. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad, Maastricht, 24, 123–126 & 138–140.

Günther, K. (1937) Über einige Orthopteren von den Salomon-Inseln und von Vanikoro. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 8(3), 3–10.

Herwaarden, H.M.C.V. (1998) A guide to the genera of stick- and leaf-Insects (Insecta: Phasmida) of New Guinea and the surrounding islands. SCIENCE IN NEW GUINEA, 24(2), 55–114. Available at http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/pdf/vanheerwarden1998.pdf

Hsiung, C.-C. (1991) The identity of Megacrania species of Taiwan (Cheleutoptera: Phasmatidae). Oriental Insects, 25, 171–177. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1991.10432225

Hsiung, C.-C. (2007) Revision of the genus Megacrania Kaup (Cheleutoptera: Phasmatidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 16(2), 207–221. Available at http://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-orthoptera-research/volume-16/issue-2/1082-6467(2007)16[207:ROTGMK]2.0.CO;2/Revision-of-the-genus-Megacrania-Kaup-Cheleutoptera-Phasmatidae/10.1665/1082-6467(2007)16[207:ROTGMK]2.0.CO;2.full

Kirby, W.F. (1896) On some new or rare Phasmidae in the collection of the British Museum. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 6(6), 447–475, pl. 39–40. Available at http://academic.oup.com/transactionslinneanzoo/article-abstract/6/6/447/3608803?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Kirby, W.F. (1904) A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). The Trustees of the British Museum, London, Vol. 1, 501 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29661

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Willemse, C.J.M. (1955) Description of a new species of Megacrania from Obi (Moluccas) with remarks on Megacrania alpheus Westwood (Orthoptera, Phasmidae). Hortus Botanicus Bogoriensis, Java (Treubia), 23(1), 41–46, pl. 3. Available at http://e-journal.biologi.lipi.go.id/index.php/treubia/article/view/2705

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Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	3	4