Brown false shieldback

{{Short description|Species of cricket-like animal}}

{{Taxobox

| name = Brown false shieldback

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Bazelet, C. | author2 = Naskrecki, P. | name-list-style=amp| title = Aroegas fuscus | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2014 | page = e.T20639359A56180116 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2014 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/20639359/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T20639359A56180116.en | access-date = 5 January 2018| doi-access = free }}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Orthoptera

| familia = Tettigoniidae

| genus = Aroegas

| species = A. fuscus

| binomial = Aroegas fuscus

| binomial_authority = Naskrecki, 1996

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The brown false shieldback (Aroegas fuscus) is a species of katydid that is only known from two localities; in Mpumalanga and in Limpopo provinces, South Africa. It only occurs at elevations above 1,200 m in the mesic highveld grasslands.