Euryconus soriae Peñalver and García-Gimeno 2006 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Psyllidae

Alternative combination: Otroacizzia soriae

Full reference: E. Peñalver and V. García-Gimeno. 2006. Otroacizzia soriae sp. nov., a new Miocene psyllid (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psyllidae) from Dominican amber. Estudios Geológicos 62(1):199-204

Belongs to Euryconus according to D. Burckhardt et al. 2021

See also Burckhardt and Ouvrard 2012 and Peñalver and García-Gimeno 2006

Sister taxa: Euryconus prosapia, Euryconus tertia

Type specimen: MCN CP 06-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (MCV coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (MCV coll)

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