A “stick insect-like” from the Triassic of the Vosges (France) (“pre-Tertiary Phasmatodea”)

Abstract

Résumé Palaeochresmoda grauvogeli, new genus and species of “stick insect-like” is described from the Lower-Middle Triassic of France. It is the oldest known Prochresmodidae and probably “pre-Tertiary Phasmatodea”. The importance of phylogenetic analyses is emphasized for the estimations of the insect palaeobiodiversity and the crises that could have affected it.