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The earliest fossil record of true crickets belonging to the Baissogryllidae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Grylloidea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2019

H. Wang ,
Y. N. Fang ,
Y. Fang ,
E. A. Jarzembowski ,
B. Wang  and
H. C. Zhang
H. Wang*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China University of Science and Technology of China, No. 96, Jinzhai Road Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
Y. N. Fang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Y. Fang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
E. A. Jarzembowski
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
B. Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
H. C. Zhang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
*
Author for correspondence: H. Wang, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Baissogryllidae is an extinct family of the insect superfamily Grylloidea, previously known from Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous time. A new genus and species, Sinagryllus xinjiangensis gen. et sp. nov., is described here based on a well-preserved forewing from the Lower Jurassic Sangonghe Formation of Xinjiang, northwestern China. It can be attributed to Baissogryllidae based on the combination of the following characteristics: a true mirror in the male tegminal stridulatory apparatus; and a distinct widening of the area between CuA2, lateral part of the diagonal vein, and proximal part of the proximal branch of MP+CuA1. This find represents not only the earliest record of Baissogryllidae, but also the first fossil wing of Grylloidea reported from China.

Keywords

BaissogryllidaeLower JurassicSangonghe Formationnew taxonChina
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Geological Magazine , Volume 156 , Issue 8 , August 2019 , pp. 1440 - 1444
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