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
Type: Gomphocerus
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Starunia (Quaternary of Ukraine)