Oedipodinae

Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers, are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species primarily inhabit xeric weedy fields, and some are considered to be important locusts:Locusta migratoria: the migratory locust Chortoicetes terminifera: the Australian plague locust Locustana pardalina the brown locust

Oedipodinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
band-winged grasshopperPBDB
Sits inside
AcrididaePBDB
Diet
grazer, herbivorePBDB, for Caelifera
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Caelifera
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Caelifera
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Caelifera
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Caelifera

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Oedipodinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

21 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Shanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBuffalo Canyon — 39.20°N, 117.78°W

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The named rock units Oedipodinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oedipodinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oedipodinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Oedipodinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 21 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Oedipodinae

Credit
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oedipodinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcrididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walker 1871)