Elcanidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Ordo: Orthoptera
Subordo: Ensifera
Infraordo: Elcanidea
Superfamilia: †Elcanoidea
Familia: Elcanidae
Subfamiliae: Archelcaninae – †Baisselcaninae - Elcaninae

Unassigned Elcanidae: †Archelcana - †Burmelcana - †Cratoelcana - †Elcanonympha –

Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906

Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page.
Gu, J-J., Tian, H., Wang, J-Y., Zhang, W-Z., Ren, D. & Yue, Y-L. 2020. A world key to the genera of Elcanidae (Insecta, Orthoptera), with a Jurassic new genus and species of Archelcaninae from China. ZooKeys, 954: 65–74. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.954.52088 Reference page.
Heads, S.W., Thomas, M.J. & Wang, Y-N. 2018. A new genus and species of Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4527(4): 575–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.4.8 Reference page.
Peñalver, E.; Grimaldi, D.A. 2010: Latest occurrences of the Mesozoic family Elcanidae (Insecta: Orthoptera), in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar and Spain. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 88–99. ISSN: 0037-9271 [not seen]
Tian, H., Gu, J-J., Yin, X-C. & Ren, D. 2019. The first Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea) from the Daohugou fossil bed of northeastern China. ZooKeys, 897: 19–28. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.897.37608 Reference page.