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Locustopsis gyra

Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Taxonomy
Locustopsis gyra was named by Zessin (1983). Its type specimen is Humboldt Museum LD 968, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Zessin collection), which is in a Toarcian marine claystone in Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Locustopsis gyra Zessin p. 200 fig. 26,65
1988Locustopsis gyra Zessin p. 113 figs. Pl 3, fig 3; pl 5, figs 1-3; text-figs 10,11
1996Locustopsis gyra Ansorge p. 29 figs. 21; Pl 4 fig 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderCaelifera
infraorderAcridideaMacLeay 1821
—Acridomorpha
superfamilyLocustopsoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyLocustopsidae
subfamilyLocustopsinaeHandlirsch 1906
genusLocustopsis
speciesgyra

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Locustopsis gyra Zessin 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available