Family Mogoplistidae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1873 (scaly cricket)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Mogoplistidae

Full reference: C. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1873. Système des Gryllides. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 4:163-170

Parent taxon: Grylloidea according to I. C. Chintauan-Marquier et al. 2016

See also Gorochov 1995, Gorochov 2010, Gorochov 2012, Song et al. 2015 and Storozhenko et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Araripegryllus romualdoi, Baissogryllidae, Oecanthidae, Phalangopsidae, Protogryllidae, Pteroplistinae, Trigonidiidae

Subtaxa: Mogoplistinae Protomogoplistinae

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Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (23: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)

Total: 27 collections including 36 occurrences

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