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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

† Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906

Type

type species by subsequent designation of † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906

Nomenclature (24)

  • † Gomphocerites Heer, 1852 in Heer & Escher, 1852: 15. (fossil)

    type species by original monotypy † Gryllus bucklandi Brodie, 1845

  • † Gomphocerites Heer, 1852 (subjective synonym of † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906)
  • † Plesioschwinzia Zessin, 1988 (subjective synonym of † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906) in Schall, Lima, Heads, Pinheiro, Kotthoff & Husemann, 2025: 501, 502.
  • † Sinolocustopsis Huang & Nel, 2024 (subjective synonym of † Locustopsis Handlirsch, 1906) in Schall, Lima, Heads, Pinheiro, Kotthoff & Husemann, 2025: 501.

References (12)

  • Heer, O. & Escher, A. (1852) Zwei geologische Vorträge. Zürich.
  • 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. (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, 49, 1–240. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_49_0001-0240.pdf
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1942) The Locustopseidae and the phylogeny of the Acridodea (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 11 (1), 1–19.
  • Sharov, A.G. (1968) Filogniya orthopteroidnykh nasekomykh [1971 English translation: Phylogeny of the Orthopteroidea]. Trudy Paleontologieskogo 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(1-3), 173–237.
  • Zessin, W. (1988) Neue Saltatoria (Insecta) aus dem Oberlias Mitteleuropas. Freiberger Forschungshefte Reihe C, 419, 107–121.
  • 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.
  • Gorochov, A.V. & Coram, R.A. (2023) New and little known taxa of the order Orthoptera (Insecta) from the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of England. Palaeoentomology, 6(2), 198–204.
  • 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:

Derived from the name Locusta or locust with suffix -opsis, from Greek ὄψις = appearance.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus0156
Species0362864