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| image = The dorsal habitus of a Prophalangopsis obscura (collected in India, Walker 1869) without measurement key.png<br />
| image_caption = ''Prophalangopsis obscura'', dorsal view<br />
| image_alt = Dorsal view of a Prophalangopsis obscura specimen collected in India. Identified by Francis Walker (entomologist) in 1869.<br />
| genus = Prophalangopsis<br />
| species = obscura<br />
| authority = ([[Francis Walker (entomologist)|Walker]], F., 1869)<br />
| synonyms = {{Species list | Tarraga obscura | Walker, F., 1869}}<br />
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="Walker 1869 pp. 100–101">{{cite book <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |last=Walker |first=Francis |author-link=Francis Walker (entomologist) |title=Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and supplement of the Blattari in the collection of the British Museum |publisher=The British Museum |publication-place=London |year=1869 |volume=Part 1 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8149 |doi-access=free |pages=100–101 |oclc=469668702 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36510#page/118/mode/2up}}</ref><br />
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'''''Prophalangopsis''''' is a South Asian [[insect]] genus, in the family [[Prophalangopsidae]], distantly related to [[cricket (insect)|crickets]] and other [[Ensifera]], erected by [[Francis Walker (entomologist)|Francis Walker]] in 1869.<ref name="Walker 1869 pp. 100–101">{{cite book <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |last=Walker |first=Francis |author-link=Francis Walker (entomologist) |title=Catalogue of the specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and supplement of the Blattari in the collection of the British Museum |publisher=The British Museum |publication-place=London |year=1869 |volume=Part 1 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.8149 |doi-access=free |pages=100–101 |oclc=469668702 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36510#page/118/mode/2up}}</ref> There is one species: '''''Prophalangopsis obscura''''', which is a winged insect species found in [[North India]] and the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. It is one of only a few surviving species in the family [[Prophalangopsidae]]. F. Walker described it in 1869 from a single male specimen from India.{{efn|Walker identified the location as [[Hindustan]], which is present-day India. [[Sir John Bennet Hearsey]], a British army officer stationed in North India, collected the specimen.<ref name="Ashworth 2022">{{cite web |last=Ashworth |first=James |title=Listen to the call: Scientists recreate the song of a 150-year-old insect that could help rediscover its species |website=Phys.org |date=2022-08-11 |url=https://phys.org/news/2022-08-recreating-song-year-old-insect-rediscover.html |access-date=2022-08-12}}</ref>}}<ref name="Walker 1869 pp. 100–101"/> Liu ''et al'' collected two possible female specimens in 2009.<ref name="Liu Zhou Bi Tang 2009a">{{citation |last1=Liu |first1=Xianwei |last2=Zhou |first2=Min |last3=Bi |first3=Wenxuan |last4=Tang |first4=Liang |title=New data on taxonomy of recent Prophalangopsidae (Orthoptera: Hagloidea) |journal=Zootaxa |year=2009 |volume=2026 |pages=53–62 |doi=10.5281/ZENODO.186174 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/186174 |access-date=2022-08-12 }}</ref><ref name="Liu Zhou Bi Tang 2009b">{{citation |last1=Liu |first1=Xianwei |last2=Zhou |first2=Min |last3=Bi |first3=Wenxuan |last4=Tang |first4=Liang |title=Prophalangopsis obscura Walker 1869 |year=2009 |doi=10.5281/ZENODO.6223350 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/6223350 |access-date=2022-08-12 |page=}}</ref><br />
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==Bioacoustic modeling==<br />
In 2022, researchers attempted to recreate the call that ''P. obscura'' would make with its legs by using [[3D scanning]], [[microscopy]], and a [[Laser Doppler vibrometer]].<ref name="Ashworth 2022"/><ref name="Tamisiea 2022">{{cite web |last=Tamisiea |first=Jack |title=Modern and Ancient Crickets May Sing the Same Song |website=The New York Times |date=2022-08-10 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/science/singing-insect-wing-sound.html |access-date=2022-08-11}}</ref><ref name="Woodrow Baker Jonsson Montealegre-Z p=e0270498">{{cite journal |last1=Woodrow |first1=Charlie |last2=Baker |first2=Ed |last3=Jonsson |first3=Thorin |last4=Montealegre-Z |first4=Fernando |title=Reviving the sound of a 150-year-old insect: The bioacoustics of Prophalangopsis obscura (Ensifera: Hagloidea) |journal=PLOS ONE |publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) |volume=17 |issue=8 |date=2022-08-10 |issn=1932-6203 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0270498 |doi-access=free |article-number=e0270498|pmid=35947546 |pmc=9365155 |bibcode=2022PLoSO..1770498W }}</ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
{{listen |filename=Reconstructed calling song of Prophalangopsis obscura.flac |pos=left |title=Reconstructed calling song of Prophalangopsis obscura |description=This is an attempt to reconstruct the calling song of Prophalangopsis obscura by using 3D scanning, microscopy, and a Laser Doppler vibrometer.<ref name="Woodrow Baker Jonsson Montealegre-Z p=e0270498"/>}}<br />
{{Gallery |mode=packed |height=125<br />
|file:Charlie Woodrow, Prophalangopsis obscura (2022).png |Charlie Woodrow, ''Prophalangopsis obscura'' (2022)<br />
|file:The lateral habitus of a Prophalangopsis obscura (collected in India, Walker 1869).png |The lateral habitus of a ''P. obscura'' specimen collected in India.<br />
|file:The tympanal organ of a Prophalangopsis obscura (collected in India, Walker 1869).png |The tympanal organ of a ''P. obscura'' specimen collected in India.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{Wikispecies inline|Prophalangopsis|''Prophalangopsis''}}<br />
*{{Commonscat inline|Prophalangopsis obscura|''Prophalangopsis obscura''}}<br />
*{{cite web |last=Ashworth |first=James |title=Recreating the song of a 150-year-old insect could help rediscover its species |website=Natural History Museum |date=2022-08-10 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/august/recreating-song-150-year-old-insect-could-help-rediscover-species.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |ref=none}}<br />
*{{YouTube|id=iw9gPKV0mVQ|title=Scientists recreate the song of a 150-year-old insect that could help rediscover its species}}<br />
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[[Category:Ensifera]]<br />
[[Category:Ensifera genera]]<br />
[[Category:Monotypic Orthoptera genera]]<br />
[[Category:Orthoptera of Asia]]<br />
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