Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya Part I Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-178

Belongs to Locustopsis according to F. E. Zeuner 1942

Sister taxa: Locustopsis africanus, Locustopsis anatolica, Locustopsis apicalis, Locustopsis argentina, Locustopsis bernstorffi, Locustopsis bucklandi, Locustopsis cockerelli, Locustopsis constricta, Locustopsis dubia, Locustopsis elegans, Locustopsis elongata, Locustopsis gracilis, Locustopsis gyra, Locustopsis karatavica, Locustopsis lacoei, Locustopsis latipennis, Locustopsis maculosa, Locustopsis nana, Locustopsis picta, Locustopsis posterior, Locustopsis reducta, Locustopsis reticulata, Locustopsis shurabica, Locustopsis spectabilis, Locustopsis uvarovi

Type specimen: PIN 53/2, a tegmen (Apical portion & extreme base not preserved). Its type locality is Shurab II Ditch 63(8), which is in a Pliensbachian terrestrial horizon in the Sulyukta Formation of Tajikistan.

Ecology: fast-moving ground dwelling grazer-herbivore

Average measurements (in mm): tegmen length 17.0