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genus †Gerarus Scudder, 1885

• Distribution:
  •  Upper Carboniferous, Illinois, Mazon Creek & France, Commentry
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (9):
  • Scudder. 1885. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3:344   >> Gerarus
  • Handlirsch. 1906. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):702-704   >> Note: Geraridae: Gerarus >> Gerarus
  • Handlirsch. 1911. Amer. Jour. Sci. 4 31:312   >> Gerarus
  • Burnham. 1983. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 90:12   >> Gerarus
  • Carpenter. 1992. In Kaesler [Ed.]. Part R Arthropoda 4. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 122 >> Note: Geraridae >> Gerarus
  • Rasnitsyn. 2002. In Rasnitsyn & Quicke [Ed.]. History of Insects 256-260   >> Note: Geraridae >> Gerarus
  • Béthoux & Nel. 2003. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3(3):173-183 >> Gerarus
  • Brauckmann & Herd. 2005. Osna. Naturwiss. Mitt. 30/31:22 >> Gerarus
  • Béthoux & Briggs. 2008. Systematic Entomology 33(3):529-547   >> Note: Archaeorthoptera >> Gerarus
• Type species:  Gerarus vetus Scudder, by original designation; authority:  Scudder. 1885. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3:319-351, 4 pls.
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Gerarina Scudder, 1885.

• synonym Archaeacridites Meunier, 1909
• synonym Genopteryx Scudder, 1885
• synonym Rossites Richardson, 1956
• synonym Sthenaropoda Brongniart, 1885
• species †collaris Handlirsch, 1911
• synonym longicollis Handlirsch, 1911
• species †danae (Scudder, 1868)
• species †danielsi Handlirsch, 1906
• synonym angustus Handlirsch, 1906
• synonym constricta (Scudder, 1885)
• synonym inopines (Richardson, 1956)
• synonym latus Handlirsch, 1911
• synonym longus Handlirsch, 1906
• synonym reductus Handlirsch, 1911
• species †fischeri (Brongniart, 1885)
• synonym bruesi (Meunier, 1909)
• synonym elegantissima (Meunier, 1909)
• species †mazonus Scudder, 1885
• species †teutonicus Brauckmann & Herd, 2005
• species †vetus Scudder, 1885

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