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A remarkable new pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic.


ABSTRACT:

A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (orthoptera

Tetrigidae) is described from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber. Electrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, gen. et sp. n. is assigned to the subfamily Cladonotinae based on the deeply forked frontal costa, but is remarkable for the presence of tegmina and hind wings, hitherto unknown in this subfamily.

SUBMITTER: Heads SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4137300 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A remarkable new pygmy grasshopper (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae) in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic.

Heads Sam W SW   Thomas M Jared MJ   Wang Yinan Y  

ZooKeys 20140730 429


<h4>A new genus and species of pygmy grasshopper (orthoptera</h4>Tetrigidae) is described from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber. Electrotettix attenboroughi Heads & Thomas, gen. et sp. n. is assigned to the subfamily Cladonotinae based on the deeply forked frontal costa, but is remarkable for the presence of tegmina and hind wings, hitherto unknown in this subfamily. ...[more]

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