Insecta - Hemiptera - Cixiidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 303475

Full reference: R. G. Fennah. 1963. New fossil fulgoroid Homoptera from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico. University of California Publications in Entomology 31:43-48

Belongs to Oeclixius according to J. Szwedo et al. 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 13057, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-7461, Pa-Buchil, Simojovel region, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

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Average measurements (in mm): body length 3.50, tegmen length 4.00