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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 1: January–February 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.10
Page range: 081–089
Abstract views: 405
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Revision of the genus Sinogranulus (Hemiptera, Granulidae) with description of a new species from the Middle Triassic of 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; University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, 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
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 Granulidae Triassic Yanchang Formation taxonomy Sinogranulus

Abstract

Granulidae is a small extinct hemipteran family with only two genera from the Middle Triassic of northern China. Here we describe and illustrate a new species of Granulidae, Sinogranulus jinsuoguanensis Fu & Huang sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic Yanchang Formation of Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, northern China, representing the second species of Sinogranulus Zhang, Chen & Zhang, 2022, adding new information on morphological diversity of this genus. In addition, Sinogranulus is emended and provided with a supplemental description for the type species Sinogranulus qishuiheensis based on four specimens from the same locality of Yanchang Formation with S. jinsuoguanensis sp. nov., and the intra-specific variation of venation in two species of Sinogranulus is discussed.

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