Subfamily Pyrgomorphinae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1874 (gaudy grasshopper)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Pyrgomorphidae
Full reference: C. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1874. Ueber Systematik der Orthoptera und die Recensio orthopterorum von C. Stål. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 24:225-230
Parent taxon: Pyrgomorphidae according to S. Y. Storozhenko et al. 2015
See also Garai 2010 and Kevan and Akbar 1964
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Pyrgomorphini
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Zurich collection) (Miocene of Germany)