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Megacraniinae
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Megacraniinae

The Megacraniinae are an anareolate subfamily of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. Their known distribution includes Malesia and islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Several genera have been revised and were placed previously in the Platycraninae.

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8 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Megacrania

genusMegacrania

Graeffea

genusGraeffea

Ophicrania

genusOphicrania

Acanthograeffea

genusAcanthograeffea

Apterograeffea

genusApterograeffea

Erastus

genusErastus

Xenomaches

genusXenomaches

Davidrentzia

genusDavidrentzia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1205346.