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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 6: December 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-12-23
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.6.9
Page range: 599–605
Abstract views: 189
PDF downloaded: 20

The first Archijassidae from the Middle Triassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Membracoidea)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Hemiptera Cicadomorpha Membracoidea Karajassinae Tongchuan entomofauna taxonomy Eocicadellium new genus

Abstract

Eocicadellium grimaldii gen. et sp. nov., the oldest representative and first Triassic member of the subfamily Karajassinae Shcherbakov, 1992, is described on the basis of six forewings from the Middle-Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation of northern China, widening the duration and biogeographic distribution of this extinct subfamily. The new data represents the first known definite record of Karajassinae in China, and further explores the palaeodiversity of Triassic archijassids.

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