Macrotettigarcta obesa Chen and Wang 2016 (cicada)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae

Full reference: J. Chen and B. Wang. 2016. A giant tettigarctid cicada from the Mesozoic of northeastern China. Spixiana 39:119-124

Belongs to Macrotettigarcta according to M. S. Moulds 2018

See also Chen and Wang 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 151861, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection)

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