Proeurotica paulula Klimaszewski 1993 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphalaridae

Alternative combination: Plesioaphalara paulula

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

Belongs to Proeurotica according to J. Drohojowska 2019

See also Klimaszewski 1993 and Ouvrard et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Proeurotica arcana, Proeurotica exhumata, Proeurotica inanima

Type specimen: BMB 018440, a forewing. Its type locality is Thorness Bay, Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight (BMB coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bembridge Marls Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

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

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