Alternative spellings: Locustopseidea, Locustopsidea
Parent taxon: Acridomorpha according to D. C. Eades et al. 2012
See also Gorochov 2005, Gorochov et al. 2006, Martins-Neto 2003, Sharov 1968 and Whalley 1985
Sister taxa: Acridoidea, Eumastacoidea, Pneumoroidea, Proscopioidea, Pyrgomorphoidea, Tanaoceroidea, Trigonopterygoidea
Subtaxa: Bouretidae Locustavidae Locustopsidae
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: Montana collections)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (6), China (4), Egypt (1), Kazakhstan (1), the United Kingdom (6)
• Jurassic of China (1), Germany (18), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (5), the Russian Federation (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Colorado)
• Triassic of Australia (3), China (1), Kyrgyzstan (4), the United Kingdom (2)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1)
Total: 70 collections including 132 occurrences