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family

† Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906

Type

† Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906 type genus of † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906

Nomenclature (16)

  • † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906: 421. (fossil)

    type genus † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906

  • † Locustopseidae [sic] Handlirsch, 1906 (fossil)

    type genus † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906

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  • † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906 in Nel & Jouault, 2022
  • † Locustopsidae Handlirsch, 1906 in Schall, Lima, Heads, Pinheiro, Kotthoff & Husemann, 2025: 500.

Nomenclature references (13)

  • Ansorge, J. (1996) Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 2, 1–132.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
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  • Gorochov, A.V., Jarzembowski, E.A. & Coram, R.A. (2006) Grasshoppers and crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research, 27, 641–662. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667106000395
  • Gu, J.-J., Shih, C.-K. & Ren, D. (2019) Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and Katydids. In Rhythms of Insect Evolution: Evidence from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Northern China. Wiley-Blackwell. 121–136 pp.
  • Handlirsch, A.P.J. (1906) Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Engelmann, Leipzig, Vol. 1, Issues 3-4, 321–480, 481–640 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26376
  • Handlirsch, A.P.J. (1920) Palaeontologie. In Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.). Gustav Fischer, Jena. Vol. 3, 117–208 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79360#page/9/mode/1up
  • Martill, D., Bechly, G. & Loveridge, R.F. (2007) In The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. Cambridge University Press. 625 pp.
  • Nel, A. & Jouault, C. (2022) New grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Elcanidae, Locustopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation suggest a biome homogeneity in Central Gondwana. Historical Biology, 34(10), 2070–2078.
  • 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
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 118, 1–216.
  • Tillyard, R.J. (1922) Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9. Orthoptera and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 47, 447–470. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109151#page/541/mode/1up
  • Zessin, W. (1983) Revision der mesozoischen Familie Locustopsidae unter Berücksichtigung neuer Funde (Orthopteroida, Caelifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 30(1-3), 173–237.
  • Zessin, W. (1991) Probleme der Artenkennung bei mesozoischen Saltatoria (Insecta). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 67(1), 157–168.

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
family0112
subfamily0213
genus016824
species07849127