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Aetalionidae (treehopper)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aetalionidae

Taxonomy
Aetalionidae was named by Spinola (1850). It is extant.

It was corrected as Aethalionidae by Statz (1950).

It was assigned to Fulgoroidea by Statz (1950); to Homoptera by Carpenter (1992); and to Membracoidea by Cryan and Urban (2012), Dietrich et al. (2017), Szwedo (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Aetalionidae Spinola
1950Aethalionidae Statz p. 6
1992Aetalionidae Carpenter
2012Aetalionidae Cryan and Urban
2017Aetalionidae Dietrich et al. p. 64
2018Aetalionidae Szwedo p. 111

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyAetalionidaeSpinola 1850
familyAetalionidaeSpinola 1850

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Aetalionidae Spinola 1850 [treehopper]
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Subfm. Aetalioninae Spinola 1850
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Tr. Aetalionini Spinola 1850
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G. Aetalion Latreille 1809
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Aetalion oligocaenica Statz 1950 [plant hopper]
G. †Tremembaetalion Martins-Neto 1998
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Tremembaetalion minutum Martins-Neto 1998
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Langhian or 27.30000 to 13.82000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.04 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Brazil Tremembaetalion minutum (153054)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Aethalion oligocaenica (122010)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.45 - 13.82Dominican Republic Aetalionini indet. (122473)