The first Late Jurassic orthopteran from Poland!

PUBLICATION — Michalska, M. and Błażejowski, B. 2026. The first Late Jurassic elcanid orthopteran from Poland and its palaeoecological implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 71 (3): 475–483. https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app013362026.html

Figure: Tegmen (forewing) of an orthopteran ?Panorpidium polonicum Michalska sp. nov. with a schematic reconstruction of the insect. Upper Jurassic (Tithonian), Owadów-Brzezinki, Poland.

The elcanid ?Panorpidium polonicum is described based on the wing venation of a single tegmen from the Owadów-Brzezinki quarry. Elcanidae is an extinct family of insects in the order Orthoptera, occurring mainly during the Mesozoic. The discovery extends the stratigraphic range of the Panorpidium into the Late Jurassic, making ?Panorpidium polonicum Michalska sp. nov. the oldest known species of the genus. This is the first elcanid from Poland.