Tribe Gomphocerini Fieber 1853 (short-horned grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Acrididae

Full reference: F. X. Fieber. 1853. Synopsis der europäischen Orthoptera. Lotos: Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 3:90-104

Parent taxon: Gomphocerinae according to V. Vedenina and N. Mugue 2011

See also Storozhenko et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Chrysochraontini, Ochrilidiini, Stenobothrini

Subtaxa: Chorthippus Gomphocerus

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Type: Gomphocerus

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Starunia (Quaternary of Ukraine)

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