†Amusurgus africanus Chopard 1936 (grasshopper)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Trigonidiidae
Full reference: L. Chopard. 1936. Orthoptères fossiles et subfossiles de l'ambre et du copal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 105:375-386
Belongs to Amusurgus according to L. Desutter-Grandcolas et al. 2021
See also Chopard 1936 and Zeuner 1939
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH 58584, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at East Africa Copal (BMNH coll)
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