Geraridae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeorthoptera

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 Superordo: Archaeorthoptera

Familia: †Geraridae
Genera: †Anepitedius – †Axiologus – †Cantabrala – †Genentomum – †Gerarulus – †Gerarus – †Nacekomia – †Omalia – †Osnogerarus – †Platyphlebopteron – †Progenentomum

Name

Geraridae Scudder, 1885: 342 [as "Gerarina"]

Synonyms

• Sthenaropodidae Handlirsch, 1906 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 6 ('NEW SYNONYMY')]
• Genopterygidae Richardson, 1956 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 6 ('NEW SYNONYMY')]

References

Primary references

• Burnham, L. 1983. Studies on Upper Carboniferous insects: 1. The Geraridae (Order Protorthoptera). Psyche 90: 1–57. DOI: 10.1155/1983/42898 .
• Scudder, S.H. 1885. Palaeodictyoptera: on the affinities and classification of Paleozoic Hexapoda. Memoirs read before the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 319–351. BHL

Additional references

• Béthoux, O. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2008. How Gerarus lost its head: stem-group Orthoptera and Paraneoptera revisited. Systematic Entomology 33(3): 529–547. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00419.x . Reference page. 
• Brauckmann, C., Arillo, A. & Ortuño, V.M. 2001. A new Geraridae (Insecta, hemipteroid stem assemblage) from the Upper Carboniferous of La Magdalena (León, northern Spain). Boletín Geológico y Minero 112(2): 57–61. PDF. Reference page. 
• Kukalová-Peck, J. & Brauckmann, C. 1992. Most Paleozoic Protorthoptera are ancestral hemipteroids: major wing braces as clues to a new phylogeny of Neoptera (Insecta). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70(12): 2452–2473. DOI: 10.1139/z92-330 . Reference page.