A new long-winged pygmy grasshopper in Eocene Baltic amber raises questions about the evolution of reduced tegmenula in Tetrigidae (Orthoptera)
Author
Skejo, Josip
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2554-4499
IUCN / SSC Grasshopper Specialist Group, Zagreb, Croatia. & SIGTET-Special Interest Group Tetrigidae, Karlsruhe, Germany. & University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia.
skejo.josip@gmail.com
Author
Kasalo, Niko
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3139-6349
SIGTET-Special Interest Group Tetrigidae, Karlsruhe, Germany. & University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia.
niko.kasalo5@gmail.com
Author
Thomas, M. Jared
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4514-7757
Center for Paleontology, Illinois Natural History & State Geological Surveys, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA.
Author
Heads, Sam W.
Center for Paleontology, Illinois Natural History & State Geological Surveys, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA.
text
Journal of Orthoptera Research
2024
2024-01-09
33
1
21
26
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.105144
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.33.105144
1937-2426-1-21
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Tribe
Rusmithini Skejo, Kasalo, Thomas & Heads
trib. nov.
Diagnosis.
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Antenna composed of 19 or more antennomeres. Pronotum smooth and flat. Anterior margin of the pronotum obtusely triangular, not spine-like and not projected above the head. Tegmenula and alae present. Legs elongated. Mid-femora sulcate. Genicular and antegenicular teeth of the hind femora minute, genicular notch almost indistinct.
Type genus.
-
Rusmithia
Skejo, Kasalo, Thomas & Heads,
gen. nov.
Composition.
-
Two genera (
Danatettix
and
Rusmithia
), two species.
Danatettix hoffeinsorum
Thomas, Skejo & Heads, 2019 and the herewith described
Rusmithia gorochovi
Skejo, Kasalo, Thomas & Heads,
gen. et sp. nov.
Enigmatic
Acrydium bachofeni
(Zeuner, 1937), characterized by long wings (
Zeuner 1937
) might also belong to this tribe as well as the genus
Succinotettix
Piton, 1938 (with one species,
S. chopardi
Piton, 1938) whose antennae are reported to have at least 19 segments (
Piton 1938
). However, we refrain from transferring these genera to
Rusmithini
as we were unable to examine the type specimens.