Cratolocustopsis aquila, Schall & Lima & Heads & Pinheiro & Kotthoff & Husemann, 2025

Schall, Ole-Kristian Odin, Lima, Daniel, Heads, Sam W., Pinheiro, Allysson P., Kotthoff, Ulrich & Husemann, Martin, 2025, New species of Cretaceous Locustopsidae (Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Crato Formation of Brazil and a taxonomic revision of the family, Zootaxa 5722 (4), pp. 485-508 : 494

Genus Cratolocustopsis Martins-Neto, 2003

Included species: Cratolocustopsis cretacea ( Martins-Neto, 1990) ( type species); C. contumax Martins-Neto, 2003 ; C. aquila sp. nov.

Remarks: Cratolocustopsis was originally described by Martins-Neto (2003) as having forewing with two branches of CuA + CuPaα (referred to as MP + CuA in the original text) and a relatively short and robust hindfemur, with a width/length ratio ranging from 0.2 to 0.35. Unfortunately, the drawings given in the same publication for species assigned to Cratolocustopsis did not match this description, leading to taxonomic uncertainty regarding the validity of the genus (e.g., Gorochov et al., 2006). In addition to the new species of Cratolocustopsis described herein, we report a new specimen that, based on its morphology and original description of Cratolocustopsis cretacea ( Martins-Neto, 1990) , can be confidently assigned to that species. This new specimen reveals the presence of two branches of CuA + CuPaα—features that were not depicted in the original figure provided by Martins-Neto—thus reaffirming the diagnostic traits of the genus.