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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 3: June 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.3.5
Page range: 221-227
Abstract views: 78
PDF downloaded: 46

A new genus of Protodikraneurini from Baltic amber shows mixed morphological affinities to modern Typhlocybinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Illinois Natural History Survey; Prairie Research Institute; University of Illinois; 1816 S. Oak St.; Champaign; IL 61820; USA
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; B. Khmelnitskogo 15; Kiev; 01054; Ukraine; Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; Denmark
Hemiptera Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha morphology fossil Cicadellidae

Abstract

Pedioura rotunda gen. et sp. nov., a fossil leafhopper from Eocene Baltic amber, is described, illustrated and placed in the extinct tribe Protodikraneurini. A key for identification of the seven known genera of the tribe is provided. Some morphological traits of the new fossil, including the very short inner apical cell of the forewing and footlike style apex, appear to be transitional between Protodikraneurini and the modern typhlocybine tribe Typhlocybini, suggesting that Protodikraneurini gave rise to both Dikraneurini and Typhlocybini.

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