# Maura (insect)

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{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Maura rubroornata 2017 12 23 2226.jpg
| image_caption = ''Maura rubroornata''
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Maura
| authority = [Stål](/source/Carl_St%C3%A5l), 1873
| synonyms = 
}}

'''''Maura'''''<ref>Stål C (1873) ''Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg'' 1: 20.</ref> is a genus of [grasshopper](/source/grasshopper)s in the tribe [Dictyophorini](/source/Dictyophorini) and the family [Pyrgomorphidae](/source/Pyrgomorphidae); it is native to [sub-Saharan Africa](/source/sub-Saharan_Africa).<ref name = OSF/>

==Species==
The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists:<ref name = OSF>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1120693 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 21 September 2021)]</ref>
# ''[Maura bolivari](/source/Maura_bolivari)'' <small>Kirby, 1902</small>
# ''[Maura lurida](/source/Maura_lurida)'' <small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small>
# ''[Maura marshalli](/source/Maura_marshalli)'' <small>Bolívar, 1904</small>
# ''[Maura rubroornata](/source/Maura_rubroornata)'' <small>(Stål, 1855)</small> - '''type species''' (as ''Petasia rubroornata'' Stål)

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web|url= http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/maura/match/1|title= Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist.|accessdate= 24 September 2012|author= Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed)|year= 2014|publisher =Species 2000: Reading, UK.}}
*{{commonscat inline|Maura|''Maura''}}
*{{wikispecies inline|Maura|''Maura''}}
{{taxonbar|from=Q10578635}}

Category:Pyrgomorphidae
Category:Orthoptera of Africa
Category:Caelifera genera
Category:Taxa named by Carl Stål

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