†Protepiptera kaweckii Usinger 1939 (achilid planthopper)
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Insecta - Hemiptera - Achilidae
Synonym: Cixidia christinae Lefebvre et al. 2007
Full reference: R. L. Usinger. 1939. Protepiptera, a new genus of Achilidae from Baltic amber (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea). Psyche 46:65-67
Belongs to Protepiptera according to A. M. Brysz and J. Szwedo 2018
See also Emeljanov and Shcherbakov 2009, Lefebvre et al. 2007, Szwedo et al. 2004 and Usinger 1939
Sister taxon: Protepiptera reticulata
Type specimens:
- Protepiptera kaweckii: PIN 964/702, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Yantarnyi village (PIN collection 964), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
- Cixidia christinae: MNHN BA 4455, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (MNHN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Lithuania (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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