Cacopsylla trigona Zhang et al. 2019 (jumping plant louse)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Psyllidae

Full reference: T. Y. Zhang, X. Y. Luo, Y. Z. Yao and D. Ren. 2019. A new fossil psyllid, Cacopsylla trigona sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae), from the Miocene of China. Palaeoentomology 2:413-417

Belongs to Cacopsylla according to T. Y. Zhang et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Cacopsylla (Hepatopsylla), Cacopsylla abieti, Cacopsylla adjuncta, Cacopsylla agellialta, Cacopsylla beckeriae, Cacopsylla bucki, Cacopsylla elongata, Cacopsylla lapidea, Cacopsylla loginovae, Cacopsylla popovi, Cacopsylla sorbi, Cacopsylla subambigua, Cacopsylla taurica, Cacopsylla umbrata

Type specimen: CNU-HOM-PS2018001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Caergen Village, Duohemao Town, Zeku County, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine shale in the Garang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Caergen Village, Duohemao Town, Zeku County

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