genus
† Ozymandipteryx Schall, Cao & Husemann, 2025
Nomenclature (1)
- † Ozymandipteryx Schall, Cao & Husemann, 2025: 254. (fossil)
type species by original designation † Ozymandipteryx campana Schall, Cao & Husemann, 2025
Nomenclature references (1)
- Schall, O.-K.O., Cao, C.-Q. & Husemann, M. (2025) New genera and species of Ripipterygidae (Orthoptera, Tridactyloidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Contributions to Entomology, 75(2), 253–262. Available at https://contributions-to-entomology.arphahub.com/article/154529/
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Named after Ozymandias, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) about the loss of greatness and forgetting of glory by the passing of time. It refers to the state of absent/very reduced metatarsi in the genus, which can be found in the modern-day Tridactylidae genera Ellipes Scudder, 1902 and Xya Latreille, 1809, but not present in any extant Ripipterygidae.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |