The first true procercopid (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea) from England
Abstract
A new genus and species belonging to the Procercopidae, Valdicopis tonyi Li, Chen and Jarzembowski, gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous (Wealden) of southern England. It represents the first definite record of the Procercopidae from England and is the first named procercopid from the Cretaceous of Europe, extending the distribution of the Procercopidae, an extinct family of froghoppers. Valdicopis gen. nov. differs from other genera in possessing a slender tegmen, wing surface mottled in basal and apical third of wing; CuA directed toward wing base, then strongly geniculate at connection with crossvein cua-cup; crossvein rp-mp distal to crossvein ir; crossvein imp absent; CuA1 fused with MP3+4; crossvein cua-cup connecting CuA; veins R, MP, and CuA leaving basal cell at common point.
- Publication:
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Cretaceous Research
- Pub Date:
- November 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104933
- Bibcode:
- 2021CrRes.12704933L
- Keywords:
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- Procercopidae;
- Cretaceous;
- Wealden;
- England;
- New genus and species