Insecta - Hemiptera - Leptopodidae
Synonyms: Palaeoleptidae Poinar 2009, Palaeoleptinae Poinar 2009
Full reference: R. H. Cobben. 1971. A fossil shore bug from Tertiary amber of Chiapas, Mexico (Heteroptera, Saldidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 63:49-56
Parent taxon: Leptopodidae according to S. A. Yu et al. 2023
See also Cobben 1971, Grimaldi and Engel 2013, McKellar and Engel 2014, Poinar 2009, Popov and Heiss 2014, Popov and Heiss 2016, Schuh et al. 1987, Sun and Chen 2020, Szwedo 2018 and Zhang et al. 2013
Sister taxon: Leptopodinae
Subtaxa: Archaesalepta Cretaceomira Cretaleptus Leptosalda Macrolepta Palaeoleptus Parvilepta
Type: Leptosalda
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Mexico (1)
• Eocene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Myanmar (2)
Total: 6 collections including 11 occurrences