Guntheridactylus grimaulti Azar and Nel 2008 (pygmy mole cricket)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Tridactylidae

Full reference: D. Azar and A. Nel. 2008. First Tridactylidae from the Eocene French amber (Insecta: Orthoptera). Alavesia 2:169-175

Belongs to Guntheridactylus according to D. Azar and A. Nel 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN PA 15270, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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