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family †Geraridae Scudder, 1885

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is Gerarina)
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (8):
  • Scudder. 1885. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3:342  
  • Handlirsch. 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):701   >> Note: Protorthoptera: Geraridae
  • Handlirsch. 1911. Amer. Jour. Sci. 4 31:312  
  • Burnham. 1983. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 90:1-58   >> Note: Protorthoptera: Geraridae
  • Carpenter. 1992. In Kaesler [Ed.]. Part R Arthropoda 4. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 122 >> Note: Protorthoptera: Geraridae
  • Kukalova-Peck & Brauckmann. 1992. Canad. Jour. Zool. 70(12):2454
  • Rasnitsyn. 2002. In Rasnitsyn & Quicke [Ed.]. History of Insects 256-260   >> Note: Eoblattida: Geraridae
  • Brauckmann & Herd. 2005. Osna. Naturwiss. Mitt. 30/31:21 >> Note: Hemipteroidea-Stammgruppe; Gerarodea
• Type genus:  Gerarus Scudder, 1885; priority for family-group names based on Gerarus dates from Gerarina Scudder, 1885.  First use as Geraridae by Handlirsch, 1906.

• synonym Genopterygidae
• synonym Gerarina Scudder, 1885
• synonym Sthenaropodidae
• genus †Anepitedius Handlirsch, 1911
• species †giraffa Handlirsch, 1911
• genus †Cantabrala Kukalova-Peck & Brauckmann, 1992
• species †gandli Kukalova-Peck & Brauckmann, 1992
• genus †Genentomum Scudder, 1885
• species †validum Scudder, 1885
• genus †Gerarulus Handlirsch, 1911
• species †radialis Burnham, 1983
• genus †Gerarus Scudder, 1885
• synonym Archaeacridites Meunier, 1909
• synonym Genopteryx Scudder, 1885
• synonym Rossites Richardson, 1956
• synonym Sthenaropoda Brongniart, 1885
• species †collaris Handlirsch, 1911
• species †danae (Scudder, 1868)
• species †danielsi Handlirsch, 1906
• species †fischeri (Brongniart, 1885)
• species †mazonus Scudder, 1885
• species †teutonicus Brauckmann & Herd, 2005
• species †vetus Scudder, 1885
• genus †Nacekomia Richardson, 1956
• species †rossae Richardson, 1956
• genus †Osnogerarus Kukalova-Peck & Brauckmann, 1992
• species †trecwithiensis Kukalova-Peck & Brauckmann, 1992
• genus †Progenentomum Handlirsch, 1906
• species †carbonis Handlirsch, 1906

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