Ochrilidia lineata Piton, 1940

Schubnel, Thomas, Desutter-Grandcolas, Laure, Garrouste, Romain, Hervet, Sophie & Nel, André, 2020, Paleocene of Menat Formation, France, reveals an extraordinary diversity of orthopterans and the last known survivor of a Mesozoic Elcanidae, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65 (2), pp. 371-385 : 376-377

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00676.2019
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/570A1449-D140-FFD1-FCB9-ABDDFE3C5A4A
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scientific name	Ochrilidia lineata Piton, 1940
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Ochrilidia lineata Piton, 1940 View in CoL

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Holotype: MNHN.F. R07043 (coll. Louis Piton); a nearly complete but very poorly preserved specimen.

Type locality: Historical quarry of Menat, Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

Type horizon: Middle Paleocene, Menat Basin.

Material.— Holotype only.

Remarks.— The extant genus Ochrilidia belongs to the Acrididae : Gomphocerinae . This fossil has narrow tegmina, with apparently few cells, with a narrow area between C and R and a darkened area between RA and C in distal part of wing Its hind legs are elongate and with a rather thin femur; the head is orthognathous. The rather reduced number of cells in distal part of tegmina would exclude this fossil from the Acrididae . It could be an Eumastacoidea . Its attribution to the genus Ochrilidia is not supported by any argument. It is a Caelifera of uncertain affinities.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.— Paleocene, Menat Formation, Menat, France.