†family Protogryllidae Zeuner 1937 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Protogryllidae

Alternative spelling: Protogryllinae

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1937. Descriptions of new genera and species of fossil Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, Series B, Taxonomy 6(8):154-159

Parent taxon: Grylloidea according to R. Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2012

See also Ansorge 1996, Gorochov 1992, Gorochov 1995, Zeuner 1937 and Zeuner 1939

Sister taxa: Araripegryllus romualdoi, Baissogryllidae, Mogoplistidae, Oecanthidae, Phalangopsidae, Pteroplistinae, Trigonidiidae

Subtaxa: Aenigmagryllus Falsispeculinae Karataogryllinae Protogryllinae

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Type: Protogryllus

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Germany (10), India (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (5)

• Triassic of the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 30 collections including 56 occurrences

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