Permotettigonia gallica Nel and Garrouste 2016 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Permotettigoniidae

Full reference: A. Nel and R. Garrouste. 2016. Taxonomic names, in Insect mimicry of plants dates back to the Permian. Nature Communications 7(13735):1-6

Belongs to Permotettigonia according to A. Nel and R. Garrouste 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN-LP-R 63853, a tegmen. Its type locality is Roua Valley, Dôme de Barrot, which is in a Roadian wet floodplain mudstone in the Cians Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Roua Valley, Dôme de Barrot

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