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genus Methana Stål, 1877

• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations:
  • Stål. 1877. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vet. Akad. Förhandlingar. 34(10):36 >> Methana    urn:lsid:Blattodea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:54
  • Princis. 1966. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(8):598 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005.
  • Princis. 1971. In Beier [Ed.]. Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea. Fam.: Ectobiidae. Orthopterorum Catalogus(14):1155 >> Note: The BSF's record for this scientific name originated from this reference. It was digitised by G. W. Beccaloni in 2005.
  • Djernæs & Murienne. 2022. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 80:220 >> Note: Transferred to Methanini. >> Methana
• Type species:  Periplaneta marginalis Saussure, by subsequent designation
• No first use as family-group name is recorded in the database.

• synonym Wodongia Tepper, 1895
• species athertonensis Mackerras, 1968
• species caneae Pope, 1953
• species convexa (Walker, 1869)
• synonym castanea (Tepper, 1894)
• synonym rufescens Kirby, 1903
• species curvigera (Walker, 1868)
• synonym shawi Princis, 1951
• species hackeri Shaw, 1925
• species marginalis (Saussure, 1864)
• synonym ligata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)
• species mjoebergi Shaw, 1925
• species papua Shelford, 1908
• species parva Shaw, 1925
• species sjoestedti Shaw, 1925
• species soror (Saussure, 1864)
• synonym biquadrata (Walker, 1868)
• synonym lunata (Tepper, 1895)
• synonym oculata (Walker, 1869)

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