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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 5: October 2019
Type: Short Communication
Published: 2019-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.5.6
Page range: 436–440
Abstract views: 242
PDF downloaded: 3

New material of the cricket Sinagryllus xinjiangensis Wang et al., 2019 (Grylloidea, Baissogryllidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Xinjiang, NW China

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Grylloidea Baissogryllidae Sinagryllus xinjiangensis

Abstract

Grylloidea is a large superfamily of orthopteran insects, comprising over 4,000 species in four extant families (Gryllidae, Mogoplistidae, Gryllotalpidae and Myrmecophilidae) and two extinct families (Baissogryllidae and Protogryllidae) to date (Resh & Cardé, 2009; Cigliano et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2019). Grylloids, commonly known as true crickets, are a group of adaptable insects occurring in all the temperate parts of the world except the highest mountain peaks. And interestingly, there are several apterous grylloid genera (e.g., Caconemobius) living in mangrove swamps, where they use the stems to submerge themselves in saltwater and are able to “skate” on water surfaces (Resh & Cardé, 2009; Kim & Kim, 2010).

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