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It is an interesting task in palæozoology to reconstruct the lineages on which recent and fossil groups have developed and, at the same time, to trace the general laws of phylogeny. Groups having developed a new and well-defined organ at a certain geological period are especially suitable for investigation from this point of view, if the palæontological record is complete enough. A good example is the evolution of the musical apparatus in the forewings of locusts. A very rich series, composed mostly of forms from the Lower Liassic of England and the Upper Jurassic (Solnhofener Schiefer) of Bavaria is kept in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), London. Many of these fossils belong to the Prophalangopsidæ, represented in recent times by a single Indian species which is still insufficiently known since there is only one specimen, Prophalangopsis obscura, Walker, preserved in the British Museum.
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Zeuner, F. Phylogenesis of the Stridulating Organ of Locusts. Nature 134, 460 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134460a0
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