Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae
Synonyms: Petilus Gu et al. 2024, Pseudogryllotalpa Gu et al. 2024, Tresdigitus Xu et al. 2020, Unidigitus Gu et al. 2024
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: Pherodactylina according to O. J. Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2024
See also Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2023, Gu et al. 2024, Gu et al. 2024, Jiang et al. 2022, Poinar et al. 2020 and Xu et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Burmagryllotalpa, Chunxiania
Subtaxa: Pherodactylus micromorphus Pherodactylus rectanguli
Type: Pherodactylus micromorphus
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections including 7 occurrences
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