Sagra

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Sagra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Chrysomelidae – frog-legged beetles or kangaroo beetles, of tropical Asia and Australia and parts of Africa.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Polyphaga – suborder; Cucujiformia – infraorder; Chrysomelidae – family; Sagrinae - subfamily

• (genus): Sagra subg. Prosagra, Sagra subg. Sagra, Sagra subg. Tinosagra - subgenera
  • Sagra femorata - type species

• Sagra (beetle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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• Sagra (Chrysomelidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sagra at National Center for Biotechnology Information

From Ancient Greek Σάγρα (Ságra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsa.ɡra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.ɡra]

Sagra m sg or f sg (genitive Sagrae); first declension

1. A river of Bruttium famous for the battle in which the Locrians defeated the army of Croton

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Sagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sagras”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly