Prophalangopsidae
Sign in to saveThe family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. They are the only extant members of the superfamily Hagloidea. There is only one extant genus in North America, where they are known as grigs, four genera in Asia, and many extinct genera (see below).
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderOrthoptera
- FamilyProphalangopsidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Prophalangopsidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, INHS, MSU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
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The family Prophalangopsidae are insects belonging to the order Orthoptera. They are the only extant members of the superfamily Hagloidea. There is only one extant genus in North America, where they are known as grigs, four genera in Asia, and many extinct genera (see below).
The earliest fossils of the family date to the Early Jurassic around 200 million years ago, and the family exhibited great diversity between the Middle Jurassic and the Early Cretaceous, with their fossil record after that time being sparse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prophalangopsidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.