Arctolocusta groenlandica Heer 1883 (katydid)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae

Alternative combination: Locusta groenlandica

Full reference: O. Heer. 1883. Ueber die fossilen Insekten Grönlands. Flora Fossilis Grönlandica. Die Fossile Flora Grönlands 143-148

Belongs to Arctolocusta according to F. E. Zeuner 1939

See also Handlirsch 1907, Heer 1883 and Zeuner 1937

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Upper Atanekerdluk, which is in a Selandian lacustrine mudstone in the Atanikerluk Formation of Greenland

Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Upper Atanekerdluk

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