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† Locustopsis elongata (Huang & Nel, 2024)

Nomenclature (2)

  • † Sinolocustopsis elongatus Huang & Nel, 2024: 17. (fossil)

    Holotype; NIGP206064; deposited at: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China (NIGPAS); Peizhuang village, Yan’an City; Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation.

  • Locustopsis elongatus (Huang & Nel, 2024) in Schall, Lima, Heads, Pinheiro, Kotthoff & Husemann, 2025: 501, 503.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Huang, D.-Y. & Nel, A. (2024) New locustopsid fossils from the Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation (Orthoptera: Caelifera). Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 60(1), 16–23. https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2024.60.1.5
  • Schall, O.-K.O., Lima, D., Heads, S.W., Pinheiro, A.P., Kotthoff, U. & Husemann, M. (2025) New species of Cretaceous Locustopsidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Crato Formation of Brazil and a taxonomic revision of the family. Zootaxa, 5722(4), 485–508. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5722.4.2

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after the narrow elongate wing, elongate part of RA distal of apex of ScP, and elongate stem of MP+CuA, main difference with the other Locustopsidae

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