Tresdigitus Xu et al. 2020 (grasshopper)

Insecta - Orthoptera - Pseudogryllotalpidae

Full reference: C. P. Xu, Y. Fang, and H. Wang. 2020. A new mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 112(104428)

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

See also Cadena-CastaƱeda et al. 2023, Jiang et al. 2022 and Xu et al. 2020

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

Subtaxa: Tresdigitus rectanguli

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Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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