Paleochina, Schubnel & Desutter-Grandcolas & Garrouste & Hervet & Nel, 2020

Schubnel, Thomas, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Garrouste, Romain, Hervet, Sophie & Nel, André, 2020, Paleocene of Menat Formation, France, reveals an extraordinary diversity of orthopterans and the last known survivor of a Mesozoic Elcanidae, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (2), pp. 371-385 : 378

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00676.2019

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scientific name

Paleochina
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Genus Paleochina View in CoL nov.

Zoobank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F95A0640-E6B9-41D1-BF8B-667066B2F7E2

Etymology: Named after Paleocene and the extant genus China .

Type species: Paleochina duvergeri sp. nov. (see below).

Species included: Type species and Paleochina minuta sp. nov.

Diagnosis.—Tegmen narrow; few intercalary cells between main veins; narrow area between radial vein and costa; darkened area between RA and C; five branches of RP with two rows of cells between them; C nearly straight along anterior margin; ScA ending on costa well basal of base of RP; narrow area between RA and RP.

Remarks.— This taxon is only tentatively placed in the Chorotypidae because the current classification of the Eumastacoidea is mainly based on the genital structures.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Chorotypidae

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