Permocicada thompsoni van Dijk and Geertsema 1999 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Prosbolidae

Full reference: D. E. van Dijk and H. Geertsema. 1999. Permian insects from the Beaufort Group of Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 40:137-171

Belongs to Permocicada according to D. E. van Dijk and H. Geertsema 1999

Sister taxa: Permocicada beipiaoensis, Permocicada borealis, Permocicada coriacea, Permocicada curtipennis, Permocicada elliptica, Permocicada idelensis, Permocicada incompleta, Permocicada integra, Permocicada kuznetskiensis, Permocicada nigrita, Permocicada nigronervosa, Permocicada perlata, Permocicada pusilla, Permocicada similis, Permocicada simulatrix, Permocicada subangustata, Permocicada sublata, Permocicada subtruncata, Permocicada triramosa, Permocicada umbrata

Type specimen: NM 982, a forewing (complete forewing). Its type locality is Lidgetton (Lid 111), which is in a Changhsingian delta plain shale in the Estcourt Formation of South Africa.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lidgetton (Lid 111)

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