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Issue: Vol. 5562 No. 1: 31 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5562.1.7
Page range: 38-44
Abstract views: 118
PDF downloaded: 69

The first and oldest record of Issidae from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China; Faculty of Science II; Natural Sciences Department; Lebanese University; Fanar - El-Matn; PO Box 90656 Jdeideh; Lebanon; Lebanese Palaeontological and Evolutive Association; Fanar; Lebanon
Faculty of Science II; Natural Sciences Department; Lebanese University; Fanar - El-Matn; PO Box 90656 Jdeideh; Lebanon; Lebanese Palaeontological and Evolutive Association; Fanar; Lebanon
Géosciences Rennes; UMR 6118 Univ. Rennes - CNRS; 263 avenue Général Leclerc; 35042 Rennes; France
Institute of Natural Sciences; Directorate Earth & History of Life; Palaeobiosphere Evolution; Rue Vautier; 29; 1000 Brussels; Belgium
Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Genève; 1 route de Malagnou; 1208 Genève; Geneva; Switzerland
Institute of Natural Sciences; Directorate Earth & History of Life; Palaeobiosphere Evolution; Rue Vautier; 29; 1000 Brussels; Belgium; University of Liège; Freshwater and Oceanic Science Unit of Research; Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians; Quai Van Beneden; 22; 4020 Liège; Belgium
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1; CNRS; ENSL; UJM; LGL-TPE; UMR 5276; Villeurbanne; F-69100; France; Archaeology; Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; 2 boulevard de la Plaine; 1050 Ixelles; Belgium
Institute of Natural Sciences; Directorate Earth & History of Life; Palaeobiosphere Evolution; Rue Vautier; 29; 1000 Brussels; Belgium
Centre de recherche en Paléontologie – Paris; UMR 7207 MNHN - CNRS - SU; 43 rue Buffon; 75005 Paris; France
Lebanese Palaeontological and Evolutive Association; Fanar; Lebanon
Institut de Systématique; Evolution; Biodiversité; ISYEB; UMR 7205 - CNRS; MNHN; UPMC; EPHE; Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 Rue Cuvier; CP 50; Entomologie; F-75005; Paris; France
Hemiptera Insecta Fulgoromorpha Issinae Barremian first occurrence

Abstract

Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. is illustrated and described from the Lower Cretaceous dysodile (oil papershales) of Bkassine, South Lebanon, and its taxonomic position discussed. Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. is characterized by its banded legs and body, a hind wing with two lobes, RA and RP very short, M with only two very short apical branches, CuA with two branches, and a small but distinct apical furcation of PCu close to the incision of the wing margin. Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. represents the earliest record (lower Barremian) of the Issidae. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known record was from the Paleocene of France.

 

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