†Abanaxipha longispina Vickery and Poinar 1994 (grasshopper)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Trigonidiidae
Full reference: V. R. Vickery and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Crickets (Grylloptera: Grylloidea) in Dominican amber. The Canadian Entomologist 126:13-22
Belongs to Abanaxipha according to L. Desutter-Grandcolas et al. 2021
See also Gorochov 2010 and Vickery and Poinar 1994
Sister taxon: Abanaxipha incongrua
Type specimen: LEM 10950, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Lyman Museum collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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