Lapidopsylla Klimaszewski 1993 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphalaridae

Full reference: S. M. Klimaszewski. 1993. Taxonomic names, in New fossil hemipteran insects from southern England (Hemiptera: Psyllina + Coleorrhyncha). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology, Supplement 1:13-36

Parent taxon: Paleopsylloidini according to D. Burckhardt et al. 2021

See also Burckhardt and Ouvrard 2012, Drohojowska 2019 and Klimaszewski 1993

Sister taxa: Carsidarina, Catopsylla, Eogyropsylla, Necropsylla, Paleopsylloides, Proeurotica

Subtaxa: Lapidopsylla memoranda Lapidopsylla thornessbaya

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Type: Lapidopsylla thornessbaya

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Thorness Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (BMB coll) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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