Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
Full reference: M. Moulds, U. Kaulfuss, and A. Gehler. 2023. A review of the singing cicada fossils from the Pliocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Willershausen, Germany, with the description of three new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicinae and Cicadinae). Palaeoentomology 6:459-471
Belongs to Tibicina according to M. Moulds et al. 2023
Sister taxa: Tibicina boulardi, Tibicina gigantea, Tibicina haematodes, Tibicina sakalai
Type specimen: GZG.W.14592, a forewing. Its type locality is Willershausen clay pit (GZG collection), which is in a Piacenzian pond marl in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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