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Issue: Vol. 60 No. 1: 27 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-27
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.60.1.4
Page range: 9-15
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A new early representative genus of Hylicellidae from the Triassic of China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205), MNHN, CNRS, SU, EPHE-PSL, UA, CP50, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205), MNHN, CNRS, SU, EPHE-PSL, UA, CP50, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
Insecta Hylicelloidea systematics fossil record Tongchuan

Abstract

A new genus and species of the extinct hemipteran family Hylicellidae, Sinohylicella sigmoidea gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated on the basis of a forewing specimen from the Middle-Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation of Shaanxi, northern China. The new fossil exhibits strongly curved CuA and PCu veins, peculiar characters adding to the morphological disparity of Triassic Cicadomorpha. The diagnoses of the Hylicelloidea, and its component families Hylicellidae, Mesojabloniidae, and Chiliocyclidae, are discussed.

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