Insecta - Orthoptera - Elcanidae

Full reference: A. G. Sharov. 1968. Filogeniya ortopteroidnykh nasekomykh. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 118:1-216

Belongs to Elcana according to W. Zessin 1987

Sister taxa: Panorpidium bimaculatum, Panorpidium parvum, Panorpidium proximum, Panorpidium sibirica, Panorpidium tesselatum, Elcana liasina, Elcana shurabica, Elcana minima, Elcana (Clathrotermes), Elcana media, Elcana magna, Elcana beyrichi, Elcana phyllophora, Elcana lithophila, Elcana deichmulleri, Elcana longicornis, Elcana minuta, Elcana geinitzi, Elcana plagiata, Elcana westwoodi

Type specimen: PIN 2066/808, an exoskeleton (Whole insect without hind legs & distal half of wings). Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakstan.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling herbivore