Longzhua

{{Short description|Extinct genus of cricket-like animals}} {{Italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Longzhua'' | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Pennsylvanian}} | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | superordo = Archaeorthoptera | familia = ''incertae sedis'' | genus = {{extinct}}'''''Longzhua''''' | genus_authority = Gu, Béthoux & Ren, 2011 | species = {{extinct}}'''''L. loculata''''' | binomial = {{extinct}}''Longzhua loculata'' | binomial_authority = Gu, Béthoux & Ren, 2011 }}

'''''Longzhua loculata''''' is an extinct archaeorthopteran (stem group Orthoptera) species which existed in what is now China during the Pennsylvanian period.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jun-Jie Gu, Olivier Béthoux & Dong Ren |year=2011 |title=''Longzhua loculata'' n. gen. n. sp., one of the most completely documented Pennsylvanian Archaeorthoptera (Insecta; Ningxia, China) |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=303–314 |doi=10.1666/10-085.1 |s2cid=85936584 |url=http://202.204.209.200/upload/20110322110354.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324183221/http://202.204.209.200/upload/20110322110354.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-24 }}</ref> Fossils of the genus were found in the Yanghugou Formation.

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Category:Pennsylvanian insects Category:Monotypic prehistoric insect genera Category:Enigmatic insect taxa Category:Gzhelian life Category:Kasimovian life Category:Carboniferous animals of Asia Category:Paleozoic insects of Asia Category:Carboniferous China Category:Fossils of China Category:Fossil taxa described in 2011