Cheiloceps douglundbergi Stroinski and Szwedo 2008

Insecta - Hemiptera - Issidae

Alternative combination: Thionia douglundbergi

Full reference: A. Stroinski and J. Szwedo. 2008. Thionia douglundbergi sp. nov. from the Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae) with notes on extinct higher planthoppers. Annales Zoologici 58:529-536

Belongs to Cheiloceps according to C. H. Dietrich et al. 2023

See also Bourgoin et al. 2020 and Stroinski and Szwedo 2008

Sister taxa: Cheiloceps arachnophila, Cheiloceps magnifrons

Type specimen: MIB UG 5278, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (MAIG collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (MAIG collection)

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