Jurassobatea Zeuner 1937 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1937. Descriptions of new genera and species of fossil Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, Series B, Taxonomy 6(8):154-159

Parent taxon: Hagloidea according to A. V. Gorochov 1995

See also Carpenter 1992, Kevan and Wighton 1983, Sharov 1968, Zeuner 1937 and Zeuner 1939

Sister taxa: Eospilopteron, Eospilopteronidae, Haglidae, Hagloedischiidae, Haglopsis, Kevania, Mesoprophalangopsis, Neohagla, Prezottophlebiidae, Prophalangopsidae, Pseudogryllacris, Pseudohumbertiella, Tuphellidae, Tzetzenulia, Yenshania, Zalmonites

Subtaxa: Jurassobatea gryllacroides

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Type: Jurassobatea gryllacroides

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Solnhofen (BMNH collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

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