Aphaena rotundipennis Scudder 1878 (fulgorid planthopper)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Fulgoridae

Alternative combination: Aphana rotundipennis

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(4):747-776

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

See also Scudder 1878 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Aphaena atava, Aphaena lithoecia

Type specimen: 175, a wing (single broken wing). Its type locality is Petrified fish cut (Scudder collection), which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large diatomite/shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Wyoming collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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