Proeurotica exhumata Cockerell 1915 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphalaridae

Alternative combinations: Paleopsylloides exhumatus, Psylla exhumata

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1915. British fossil insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49:469-499

Belongs to Proeurotica according to J. Drohojowska 2019

See also Becker-Migdisova 1985, Burckhardt and Ouvrard 2012, Cockerell 1915 and Klimaszewski 1993

Sister taxa: Proeurotica arcana, Proeurotica inanima, Proeurotica paulula

Type specimen: USNM 61427, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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