Locustopsis apicalis Zherikhin 1985 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Full reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1985. Yurskie pryamokrylye yuzhnoy Sibiri i zapadnoy Mongolii (Gryllida=Orthoptera). Yurskie Nasekomye Sibiri i Mongolii 171-184

Belongs to Locustopsis according to V. V. Zherikhin 1985

Sister taxa: Locustopsis africanus, Locustopsis anatolica, Locustopsis bucklandi, Locustopsis cockerelli, Locustopsis cubitalis, Locustopsis dubia, Locustopsis elegans, Locustopsis elongata, Locustopsis ferghanensis, Locustopsis germari, Locustopsis gyra, Locustopsis karatavica, Locustopsis latipennis, Locustopsis maculosa, Locustopsis mecklenburgica, Locustopsis nana, Locustopsis picta, Locustopsis reducta, Locustopsis rhytofemoralis, Locustopsis shurabica, Locustopsis sippeli, Locustopsis spectabilis, Gomphocerites heeriana

Type specimen: PIN 1101/8, a tegmen. Its type locality is Khudonogovo (PIN collection 1101), which is in a Bathonian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Itat Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Khudonogovo (PIN collection 1101)

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