Insecta - Orthoptera - Acrididae
Alternative spelling: Locustidae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1825. Some remarks on the nomenclature of the Gryllina of MacLeay, with the characters of a new genus in that tribe. The Zoological Journal 1:429-432
Parent taxon: Oedipodinae according to S. Y. Storozhenko et al. 2015
See also Chapco and Contreras 2011, Fries et al. 2007 and Garai 2010
Sister taxa: Aestilocusta, Bryodemini, Chimarocephala, Gryllacris kittli, Hippiscini, Mioedipoda, Nymphacrida, Oedemastopoda, Oedipoda nigrofasciolata, Oedipodini, Parapleurini, Sphingonotini, Trimerotropini
Subtaxa: Locusta
Type: Gryllus (Locusta)
Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Aix-en-Provence (Inst. Geol. Lyon) (Oligocene of France)