Hammapteryx anglica Cockerell 1920 (planthopper)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Ricaniidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, I. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5:273-279

Belongs to Hammapteryx according to J. Szwedo et al. 2004

See also Cockerell 1920

Sister taxa: Hammapteryx ceryniiformis, Hammapteryx eocenicus, Hammapteryx lepidoides, Hammapteryx reticulata, Hammapteryx tripunctata

Type specimen: British Museum In. 15030, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH)

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