Eotettigarcta scotica Zeuner 1944 (hairy cicada)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Tettigarctidae

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1944. Notes on Eocene Homoptera from the Isle of Mull, Scotland. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 11(74):110-117

Belongs to Eotettigarcta according to M. S. Moulds 2018

See also Whalley 1983 and Zeuner 1944

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH In 38883, a hindwing (anal lobe missing, apex damaged). Its type locality is Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull, which is in a Thanetian lacustrine claystone/sandstone in the interbasaltic plant-beds Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull

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