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genus Mercennus Distant, 1904

• Nomenclatural details:   Nomen novum (Junior homonym is Melania)
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations:
  • Distant. 1904. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 13(76):304   >> Note: Replacement name for Melania Distant, 1901; type species stated: M. gracilis >> Mercennus    urn:lsid:Coreoidea.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:454834
  • Bergroth. 1912. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 56:76-79   >> Note: Morphology, especially of female abdomen; type and only genus of new division Mercennaria; description of a new species >> Mercennus
  • Bergroth. 1913. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22:130   >> Note: Catalogued (=Melania Distant); catalogue of species >> Mercennus
  • O'Shea & C. W. Schaefer. 1980. Oriental Insects 14(2):223, 227-228 >> Note: In key to Asian genera of Mictini; type species stated: Myctis gracilis Westwood, 1842; synonymy (=Melania Distant, 1901, junior homonym); description; notes; list of species >> Mercennus
• Type species:  Myctis gracilis Westwood, by original monotypy
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Mercennaria Bergroth, 1912.

• synonym Melania Distant, 1901
• species gracilis (Westwood, 1842)
• species moultoni Bergroth, 1912
• species subargenteus (Walker, 1871)

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