Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae

Full reference: D. K. M. Kevan and D. C. Wighton. 1983. Further observations on North American Tertiary orthopteroids (Insecta: Grylloptera). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20:217-224

Parent taxon: Tettigoniidae according to A. V. Gorochov 1995

See also Kevan and Wighton 1983

Sister taxa: Amblycorypha perdita, Brachypoda, Conocephalinae, Conocephalus martyi, Decticus umbraceus, Eodecticus, Gryllacris cineris, Hexacentrinae, Lipotactinae, Locusta exstincta, Locusta silens, Locustites, Locustopsites, Meconematinae, Meconematini, Meconeminae, Mecopodinae, Phaneroptera vetusta, Phaneropterinae, Phlugidini, Prophasgonura, Protempusa, Pseudophyllinae, Pseudotettigoniinae, Rammeinae, Tettigoidinae, Tettigoniinae, Tympanophorinae

Subtaxa: Lithymnetoides laurenti

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Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection) (Eocene of France)

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