Gerarus

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
Genus: †Gerarus
Species: †G. collaris – †G. danielsi – †G. fischeri – †G. teutonicus – †G. vetus
[source: Brauckmann & Herd (2005: 23)]

Gerarus Scudder, 1885: 344

Gender: masculine

Type species: Gerarus vetus Scudder, 1885, by monotypy. [two other nominal species originally included conditionally]

Sthenaropoda Brongniart, 1885: 59 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 12]
- Type species: Sthenaropoda fischeri Brongniart, 1885.
Genopteryx Scudder, 1885: 327 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 12]
- Type species: Genopteryx constricta Scudder, 1885 [= Gerarus danielsi Handlirsch, 1906].
Archaeacridites Meunier, 1909: 39 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 12]
- Type species: Archaeacridites bruesi Meunier, 1909 [= Sthenaropoda fischeri Brongniart, 1885].
Rossites Richardson, 1956: 44 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 12]
- Type species: Rossites inopinus Richardson, 1956 [= Gerarus danielsi Handlirsch, 1906].

Brongniart, C. 1885. Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Rouen 21(3): 50–68. BHL.
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

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.
Béthoux, O.; Nel, A. 2003: Wing venation morphology and variability of Gerarus fischeri (Brongniart, 1885) sensu Burnham (Panorthoptera; Upper Carboniferous, Commentary, France), with inferences on flight performances. Organisms diversity & evolution, 3: 173–183. DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00070
Brauckmann, C. & Herd, K.J. 2005. Insekten-Funde aus dem Westfalium D (Ober-Karbon) des Piesberges bei Osnabrück (Deutschland). Teil 2: Neoptera. [Insect finds from the Westphalian D (Upper Carboniferous) of Piesberg at Osnabrueck (Germany). Part 2: Neoptera.] Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 30/31: 19–65. (in German). PDF. Reference page.