†Lipotactes bispinatus Weidner 1956 (katydid)
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Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Full reference: H. Weidner. 1956. Die Bernstein-Heuschrecken (Saltatoptera) der Sammlung des Geologischen Staatsinstituts Hamburg (Orthopteroidea). Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 25:82-103
Belongs to Lipotactes according to H. Weidner 1956
Sister taxon: Lipotactes martynovi
Type specimen: GPIH 311, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Scheele collection, University of Hamburg, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Scheele collection, University of Hamburg
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