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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
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]