Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Alternative combination: Poekilloptera melanospila
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Archepseudophylla according to A. Nel et al. 2008
See also Cockerell 1921 and Szwedo et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Archepseudophylla fossilis, Archepseudophylla nanzhaoica, Archepseudophylla wenshanensis
Type specimen: BMNH In.24356, a tegmen. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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