Locustopsinae Handlirsch, 1906

GOROCHOV, ANDREI V. & CORAM, ROBERT A., 2023, New and little known taxa of the order Orthoptera (Insecta) from the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of England, Palaeoentomology 6 (2), pp. 198-204 : 200

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.2.11

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7982588

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scientific name

Locustopsinae Handlirsch, 1906
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Subfamily Locustopsinae Handlirsch, 1906 View in CoL

Remarks. In 2006, Cretaceous representatives of Locustopsinae were tentatively included in four genera having different positions of the MA2 base and different numbers of MP+CuA1 branches in the tegmina ( Gorochov et al., 2006): Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906 with the MA2 base located before the MA1 bifurcation and with MP+CuA1 having two branches; Zeunerella Sharov, 1968 with MA2 located on 2MA1 behind the MA1 bifurcation and with the same structure of MP+CuA1; Mesolocustopsis Hong & Wang, 1990 with MA as in Locustopsis but with one branch of MP+CuA1; Zessinia Martins-Neto, 1990 with MA as in Zeunerella but with MP+CuA1 as in Mesolocustopsis . The Cretaceous genera Cratozeunerella Martins-Neto, 1998 and Cratolocustopsis Martins-Neto, 1998 were also tentatively synonymized with Zeunerella and Mesolocustopsis , respectively.

The tentative genera Locustopsis , Zeunerella and Mesolocustopsis are also known in the Jurassic, but the two latter genera are represented in these deposits by only one and two species, respectively ( Gorochov et al., 2006); Locustopsis , on the contrary, has numerous species of the Jurassic age. Moreover, the structure of its tegminal MA is clearly more primitive, characteristic of all the Triassic representatives of Locustopsidae . However, the other Jurassic locustopsines have the same structure of this vein (as in Locustopsis ) but are attributed to a few exclusively Jurassic genera: Gomphocerites Heer, 1852 (Lower Jurassic); Parapleurites Brauer, Redtenbacher & Ganglbauer, 1889 (Lower or Middle Jurassic); Phaneropterites Handlirsch, 1906 (Upper Jurassic); Conocephalella Strand, 1928 (Upper Jurassic); Brodiana Zeuner, 1942 (Lower Jurassic); Schwinzia Zessin, 1983 (Lower Jurassic); Plesioschwinzia Zessin, 1988 (Lower Jurassic); Orichalcum Whalley, 1985 (Lower Jurassic). Brodiana and Orichalcum are most probably synonyms of Locustopsis ; Gomphocerites , Phaneropterites and Conocephalella are insufficiently understood; but the rest of the Jurassic genera are more or less suitable for determination, and their tentative diagnostic characters are listed below (in the discussion of Plesioschwinzia ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Locustopsidae

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