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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 5: September 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.5.14
Page range: 460-468
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New archaeorthopteran insects from the Pennsylvanian of Piesberg (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Charles University; Faculty of Science; Department of Zoology; Viničná 7; CZ-128 00; Praha 2; Czech Republic
Museum am Schölerberg; Klaus-Strick-Weg 10; 49082; Osnabrück; Germany
Museum am Schölerberg; Klaus-Strick-Weg 10; 49082; Osnabrück; Germany
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Entomology; Branišovská 31; CZ-370 05; České Budějovice; Czech Republic
Charles University; Faculty of Science; Department of Zoology; Viničná 7; CZ-128 00; Praha 2; Czech Republic
Lower Saxony Germany Polyneoptera Archaeorthoptera Carboniferous Pennsylvanian subvariscian foreland basin

Abstract

Two new interesting species of archaeorthopterans are described from the Moscovian locality of Piesberg quarry near Osnabrück (Lower Saxony, Germany). Omalia alexrasnitsyni sp. nov. and ?Paraspiculum carloherdi sp. nov. (Caloneurodea) are described based on nearly complete forewing venation and the latter assigned to clade Panorthoptera. These new species further expand on the insect diversity that has been found at Piesberg quarry as well as the morphological disparity of venation patterns seen in Palaeozoic polyneopterans.

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