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family

† Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906

Type

† Elcana Giebel, 1856 type genus of † Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906

Nomenclature (19)

  • † Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906: 412, 516. (fossil)

    type genus † Elcana Giebel, 1856

  • † Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906 in Handlirsch, 1920: 186.
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  • † Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906 in Nel & Jouault, 2022
  • † Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906 in Schall, Kotthoff & Husemann, 2023

Nomenclature references (19)

  • Ansorge, J. (1996) Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 2, 1–132.
  • Fang, Y., Wang, B., Zhang, H.-C., Wang, H., Jarzembowski, E.A., Zheng, D.-R., Zhang, Q., Lia, S. & Liu, Q. (2015) New Cretaceous Elcanidae from China and Myanmar (Insecta, Orthoptera). Cretaceous Research, 52, 323–328. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667114000962
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  • 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]
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • 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.
  • Gu, J.-J., Tian, H., Wang, J., Zhang, W.-Z., Ren, D. & Yue, Y. (2020) A world key to the genera of Elcanidae (Insecta, Orthoptera), with a Jurassic new genus and species of Archelcaninae from China. ZooKeys, 954, 65–74. Available at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/52088/
  • 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
  • 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
  • Heads, S.W., Thomas, M.J. & Wang, Y. (2018) A new genus and species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa, 4527(4), 575–580.
  • Kočárek, P. (2020) A diminutive elcanid from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, Ellca nevelka gen. et sp. nov., and the function of metatibial spurs in Elcanidae (Orthoptera). Cretaceous Research, 116.
  • Martins-Neto, R.G. (1992) Nova ocorrência, variabilidade morfológica e relações filogenéticas do gênero Cratoelcana Martins-Neto, 1991 (Insecta, Ensifera, Elcanidae), da Formação Santana, Bacia do Araripe, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 36(4), 817–830.
  • 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.
  • Penalver, E. & Grimaldi, D.A. (2010) Latest occurrences of the Mesozoic family Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera), in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and Spain. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 46(1-2), 88–99.
  • Schall, O.-K.O., Kotthoff, U. & Husemann, M. (2023) Three new species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Myanmar amber and a discussion about phylogeny, ecology and evolutionary origin of Myanmar-amber Elcanidae. PalZ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-023-00669-3
  • 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. (1987) Variabilität, Merkmalswandel und Phylogenie der Elcanidae im Jungpaläozoikum und Mesozoikum und die Phylogenie der Ensifera (Orthopteroida, Ensifera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 34(1-3), 1–76.
  • Zessin, W. (1991) Probleme der Artenkennung bei mesozoischen Saltatoria (Insecta). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 67(1), 157–168.

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