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Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), a New Froghopper from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber with Evidence of Its Possible Host Plant

by
George Poinar, Jr.
1,* and
Alex E. Brown
2
1
Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
2
629 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94708, USA
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Life 2023, 13(4), 922; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040922
Submission received: 19 January 2023 / Revised: 24 March 2023 / Accepted: 28 March 2023 / Published: 31 March 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Research on Palaeontology)
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Abstract

A new genus and species of froghopper, Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new genus possesses the following diagnostic characteristics: slender, medium size body (length, 7.0 mm) with head longer than wide, round eyes; antennae slender with eight antennomeres; pedicel very short, shorter than scape; pronotum with a length/width ratio of 2.4; metatibia with three spines, including one short spine near base and two adjacent, long, thick spines near apex; a single series of 16 thick apical teeth (comb) at metatibial apex; tegmen narrow with a length/width ratio of 3.2; tegmen with coastal area and stigmal cell punctate; CuP meeting base of CuA2; and MP branching at middle of wing. In hind wing, Cu vein forked once. A series of plant trichomes adjacent and attached to the specimen suggests that the froghopper’s host plant was a fern.
Keywords: Burmese amber; Cenomanian; froghopper; Sinoalidae; new genus Burmese amber; Cenomanian; froghopper; Sinoalidae; new genus

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Poinar, G., Jr.; Brown, A.E. Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), a New Froghopper from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber with Evidence of Its Possible Host Plant. Life 2023, 13, 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040922

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Poinar G Jr., Brown AE. Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), a New Froghopper from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber with Evidence of Its Possible Host Plant. Life. 2023; 13(4):922. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040922

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Poinar, George, Jr., and Alex E. Brown. 2023. "Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), a New Froghopper from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber with Evidence of Its Possible Host Plant" Life 13, no. 4: 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040922

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Poinar, G., Jr., & Brown, A. E. (2023). Araeoanasillus leptosomus gen. et sp. nov., (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Sinoalidae?), a New Froghopper from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber with Evidence of Its Possible Host Plant. Life, 13(4), 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040922

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