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Locustopsis ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4404178	https://www.gbif.org/species/4404178
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	176227	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176227

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Locustopsidae : Locustopsis

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
superorder	Orthopterida	Boudreaux 1979
order	Orthoptera	Olivier 1789
suborder	Caelifera	Ander 1936
family	Locustopsidae	Handlirsch 1906
subfamily	Locustopsinae	Handlirsch 1906
genus	Locustopsis	Handlirsch 1906

Scientific Name

Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906

Name Published In

Handlirsch. 1906. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen., Engelmann, Leipzig 1(3-4):321-480, 481-640, pls. 19-36

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Locustopsis	genus	belongs to Locustopsidae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Locustopsis	genus	belongs to Locustopsidae	stated without evidence	Martynov, 1937
Locustopsis	genus	belongs to Locustopsidae	stated with evidence	Zeuner, 1942
Locustopsis	genus	belongs to Locustopsinae	stated with evidence	Gorochov et al., 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

145 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Type Specimen

Locustopsis elegans Handlirsch, 1906

Designated By

Handlirsch. 1906. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen., Engelmann, Leipzig 1(3-4):421

Type Information Source

Orthoptera Species File

Environment

terrestrial (based on Caelifera)

Motility

fast-moving (based on Caelifera)

Vision

well-developed (based on Caelifera)

Diet

grazer, herbivore (based on Caelifera)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Caelifera)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Caelifera)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen

External Images

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gomphocerites heeriana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis africanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Locustopsis anatolica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis apicalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Locustopsis bernstorffi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis brodiei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Locustopsis bucklandi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis cockerelli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis constricta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Locustopsis cubitalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Locustopsis dubia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis elongata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis ferghanensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis germari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Locustopsis gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Locustopsis gyra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis karatavica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Locustopsis lacera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis lacoei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis latipennis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis maculosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis mecklenburgica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis nana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis picta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Locustopsis posterior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Locustopsis procera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis pulchella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis reducta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis rhytofemoralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Locustopsis shurabica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis sippeli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis spectabilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Locustopsis uvarovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Phaneropterites Handlirsch, 1906	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Locustopsidae : *Phaneropterites*
Brodiana Zeuner, 1942	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Locustopsidae : *Brodiana*
Gomphocerites Heer, 1852	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Locustopsidae : *Gomphocerites*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1852	Gomphocerites Heer p. 15
1906	Locustopsis Handlirsch p. 421
1906	Gomphocerites Handlirsch p. 423
1937	Locustopsis Martynov p. 69
1942	Locustopsis Zeuner p. 8
1942	Brodiana Zeuner p. 13
1953	Locustopsis Bode
1968	Locustopsis Sharov

Year	Name and Author
1983	Locustopsis Zessin p. 181
1985	Locustopsis Whalley
1988	Locustopsis Zessin p. 112
1990	Locustopsis Martins-Neto p. 279
1991	Locustopsis Ansorge
1996	Locustopsis Ansorge p. 27
2006	Locustopsis Gorochov et al. p. 657
2016	Locustopsis Gu et al. p. 377

References

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Heer O. Die Lias-Insel des Aargau's, Zwei Geologische Vorträge Gehalten im März 1852 1, 1-15

Martynov A. V. (1937) Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 1-178

Zeuner F. E. (1942) The Locustopsidae and the phylogeny of the Acridodea (Orthoptera), Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy 11, 1-18

Bode A. (1953) Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103, 1-375

Sharov A. G. (1968) Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118, 1-216

Zessin W. (1983) Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 30, 173-237

Whalley P. E. S. (1985) The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39 3, 107-189

Zessin W. (1988) Neue Saltatoria (Insecta) aus dem Oberlias Mitteleuropas, Freiberger Forschungshefte C 419, 107-121

Martins-Neto R. G. (1990) The family Locustopsidae (Insecta, Caelifera) in the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, northeast Brazil). I - description of two new species of the genus Locustopsis Handlirsch and three new species of the genus Zessinia n. gen., I Simpósio Sobre a Bacia do Araripe e Bacias Interiores do Nordeste, 277-291

Ansorge J. (1991) Locustopsis africanus n. sp. (Saltatoria, Caelifera) from the Lower Cretaceous of SW Egypt, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1991 4, 205-212

Ansorge J. (1996) Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland), Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 2, 1-132

Gorochov A. V., Jarzembowski E. A., et al (2006) Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England, Cretaceous Research 27, 641-662

Gu J. J., Yue Y. L., et al (2016) First Jurassic grasshopper (Insecta, Caelifera) from China, Zootaxa 4169, 377-380

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Handlirsch. 1939. Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II. Teil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien) 49:34 - via Orthoptera Species File

Sharov. 1968. Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR [= Transactions of the Institute of Paleontology, USSR Academy of Sciences] (Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta) 118:187[193] - via Orthoptera Species File

Zessin. 1983. Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (Dtsch. Entomol. Z.) 30(1-3):173-237 - via Orthoptera Species File

Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram. 2006. Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research (Cretaceous Res.) 27:657 - via Orthoptera Species File

Handlirsch. 1906. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen., Engelmann, Leipzig 1(3-4):421 - via Orthoptera Species File

Foss. Ins. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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