Polysarcus Fieber 1853 (katydid)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae

Synonym: Orphania Fischer 1853

Full reference: F. X. Fieber. 1853. Synopsis der europäischen Orthoptera. Lotos: Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 3:168-176

Parent taxon: Barbitistini according to J. D. Mugleston et al. 2018

See also Carpenter 1992, Eades et al. 2012, Garai 2010, Harz 1969 and Zeuner 1939

Sister taxa: Barbitistes, Isophya

Subtaxa: Polysarcus denticauda

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Ecology: slow-moving arboreal folivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Starunia (Quaternary of Ukraine)

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