Insecta - Hemiptera - Cixiidae
Full reference: M. Spinola. 1839. Essai sur les Fulgorelles, sous-tribu de la tribu des Cicadaires, ordre des Rhyngotes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8:133-337
Parent taxon: Delphacoidea according to T. Bourgoin and J. Szwedo 2023
See also Archibald and Mathewes 2000, Bourgoin and Szwedo 2022, Cryan and Urban 2012, Li et al. 2017, Martynov 1928, Martynov 1937, Martynov 1937, Statz 1950, Szwedo 2004, Szwedo 2007, Szwedo 2018, Szwedo 2019, Szwedo et al. 2004, Tillyard 1922, Tillyard 1923, Wang et al. 2022 and Whalley 1985
Sister taxa: Delphacidae, Lalacidae
Subtaxa: Bothriocerinae Cixiinae Cretofennahia Hyalesthes Karebodopoides Mnemosyne Mundopoides Oeclixius Oligocixia Plecophlebus
Type: Cixius
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), France (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (5)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), France (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 35 collections including 58 occurrences