†Antillotettix electrum Heads 2009 (pygmy grasshopper)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Tetrigidae
Full reference: S. W. Heads. 2009. New pygmy grasshoppers in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). Denisia 26:69-74
Belongs to Antillotettix according to M. J. Thomas et al. 2019
See also Heads 2009
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-1152, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)
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