Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Protempusa according to A. Nel and R. Roy 1996

See also Piton 1940

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN-LP-R 07035, an exoskeleton (fragment metathorax & hindwing). Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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