A New Fossil Stick Grasshopper (Proscopioidea: Proscopiidae) from the Crato Formation of Brazil

Authors

  • Márcio Mendes Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Geologia, Pici, 60455-760, Caixa Postal 6030, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
  • Stela Maris Oliveira Lopes de Vasconcelos Universidade Federal do Ceará, Graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Biologia, Pici, 60440-900, Caixa postal 6021, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
  • Francisco Irineudo Bezerra de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia, Departamento de Geologia, Pici, 60455-970, caixa postal 6030, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11137/2019_2_437_443

Keywords:

Orthoptera, Proscopiidae, Crato Formation

Abstract

A new specimen of a stick grasshopper (Orthoptera: Proscopioidea: Proscopiidae) is described from the Early Cretaceous (Late Aptian – Early Albian) Crato Formation of southern Ceará, northeastern Brazil. This is only the second formal description of Proscopiidae in the fossil Record. Unfortunately, LP/UFC CRT 2698 is poorly preserved as a faint impression due to post-diagenetic processes. However, the discovery of this new taxon enhances the diversity of Proscopiidae in the Gondwana, and it confirms the South America as a dispersion zone for this family.

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Published

2019-12-01

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 2 (2019)

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