Menatgryllus, Schubnel & Desutter-Grandcolas & Garrouste & Hervet & Nel, 2020

Schubnel, Thomas, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Garrouste, Romain, Hervet, Sophie & Nel, André, 2020, Paleocene of Menat Formation, France, reveals an extraordinary diversity of orthopterans and the last known survivor of a Mesozoic Elcanidae, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (2), pp. 371-385 : 372-373

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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00676.2019

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scientific name

Menatgryllus
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Genus Menatgryllus View in CoL nov.

Zoobank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:42A274A8-2443-4D8B-A496-598AFBD44B0F

Type species: Menatgryllus longixiphus sp. nov., by monotypy, see below.

Etymology: Named after the Menat locality and Gryllus , the generic name for a cricket.

Diagnosis.—As for the type species by monotypy.

Remarks.—The presence of forewings and acoustic tympana in females indicates that males possibly had forewings with a stridulatory apparatus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Gryllidae

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