Family Leptopodidae Brullé 1836 (spiny-legged bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Leptopodidae

Alternative spelling: Leptopodiens

Synonyms: Palaeoleptidae Poinar 2009, Palaeoleptinae Poinar 2009, Palaeotanyrhinidae Poinar et al. 2022

Full reference: G. A. Brullé. 1836. Tome IX, Orthoptères et Hémiptères. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Traitant de Leur Organiation et de Leurs Moeurs en Général, par M. V. Audouin, et Comprenant Leur Classification et la Description des Espèces, par M. A. Brullé 226-415

Parent taxon: Leptopodoidea according to S. A. Yu et al. 2023

See also Lindskog 1995, Poinar 2009, Poinar et al. 2022, Popov 1971, Popov and Heiss 2014, Rédei 2024, Schuh et al. 1987, Sun and Chen 2020, Szwedo 2018 and Zhang et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Leotichiidae, Omaniidae

Subtaxa: Leptopodinae Leptosaldinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Mexico (1)

• Eocene of India (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Myanmar (3)

Total: 7 collections including 13 occurrences

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