Austroscarites femoratus Hamilton 1992 (leafhopper)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadellidae

Alternative combination: Scarites femoratus

Full reference: K. G. A. Hamilton. 1992. Lower Cretaceous Homoptera from the Koonwarra Fossil Bed in Australia, with a New Superfamily and Synopsis of Mesozoic Homoptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85(4):423-430

Belongs to Austroscarites according to P. A. Jell 2004

See also Hamilton 1992

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MUGD 3578, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is NMVPL425, Koonwarra, which is in an Aptian pond claystone/siltstone in Australia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at NMVPL425, Koonwarra

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