Locustavidae

Locustavidae; Temporal range: Early Triassic–Middle Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Infraorder:	Acrididea
Superfamily:	†Locustopsoidea
Family:	†Locustavidae; Sharov, 1968

Locustavidae is an extinct family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera. There are about 7 genera and 13 described species in Locustavidae, with fossils found in Australia, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.

Genera

These seven genera belong to the family Locustavidae:

† Brevilocustavus Gorochov, 2005
† Juralocustavus Nel, Xu & Huang, 2026
† Locustavus Sharov, 1968
† Mesacridites Riek, 1954
† Miolocustavus Gorochov, 2005
† Praelocustopsis Sharov, 1968
† Triassolocusta Tillyard, 1922

References

1 2 Nel, A.; Xu, M.-M.; Huang, D.-Y. (2026). "New locustopsoid fossils (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiyuan Basin, Central China". Mesozoic. 3 (3): 299–304. doi:10.11646/mesozoic.3.3.9.
↑ "Locustavidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
↑ "The Paleobiology Database, family Locustavidae". Retrieved 2019-05-10.
↑ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "family Locustavidae Sharov, 1968". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-10.

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[Juralocustavus-1] 1 2 Nel, A.; Xu, M.-M.; Huang, D.-Y. (2026). "New locustopsoid fossils (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Middle Jurassic Jiyuan Basin, Central China". Mesozoic. 3 (3): 299–304. doi:10.11646/mesozoic.3.3.9.

[gbif-2] "Locustavidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-10.

[buglink-3] "The Paleobiology Database, family Locustavidae". Retrieved 2019-05-10.

[Otte2019-4] Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. (2019). "family Locustavidae Sharov, 1968". Orthoptera species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-10.