Insecta - Orthoptera - Pseudogryllotalpidae

Full reference: G. Poinar, Y. N. Su, and A. E. Brown. 2020. A new genus of crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Biosis: Biological Systems 1:33-38

Parent taxon: Pseudogryllotalpidae according to J. Gu et al. 2024

See also Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2023 and Poinar et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Burmagryllotalpa, Chunxiania, Petilus, Pseudogryllotalpa, Tresdigitus, Unidigitus

Subtaxa: Pherodactylus micromorphus

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Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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