Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae
Full reference: A. G. Sharov. 1968. Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118:1-216
Belongs to Locustopsis according to W. Zessin 1983
See also Sharov 1968
Sister taxa: Locustopsis africanus, Locustopsis apicalis, Locustopsis bucklandi, Locustopsis cockerelli, Locustopsis cubitalis, Locustopsis dubia, Locustopsis elegans, Locustopsis elongata, Locustopsis ferghanensis, Locustopsis germari, Locustopsis gyra, Locustopsis karatavica, Locustopsis latipennis, Locustopsis maculosa, Locustopsis mecklenburgica, Locustopsis nana, Locustopsis picta, Locustopsis reducta, Locustopsis rhytofemoralis, Locustopsis shurabica, Locustopsis sippeli, Locustopsis spectabilis, Gomphocerites heeriana
Type specimen: PIN 371/1910, a forewing (whole forewing). Its type locality is Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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