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Tettigidea gracilis

Insecta - Orthoptera - Tetrigidae

Taxonomy
Tetrix gracilis was named by Heer (1864). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Scudder (1885); it was recombined as Tettigidea gracilis by Thomas et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Tetrix gracilis Heer fig. 228
2019Tettigidea gracilis Thomas et al. p. 436

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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
superfamilyTetrigoideaRambur 1838
familyTetrigidaeRambur 1838
subfamilyBatrachideinae()
genusTettigideaScudder 1862
speciesgracilis()

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.

Tettigidea gracilis Heer 1864
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Diagnosis
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