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Title: Jatoba gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Nogodinidae), a new genus of planthoppers from Dominican amber

Author
item POINAR, GEORGE - Oregon State University
item Vega, Fernando
item STROINSKI, ADAM - Polish Academy Of Sciences

Submitted to: Historical Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/7/2020
Publication Date: 12/8/2020
Citation: Poinar, G., Vega, F.E., Stroinski, A. 2020. Jatoba gen. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Nogodinidae), a new genus of planthoppers from Dominican amber. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1862107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1862107

Interpretive Summary: A new family, genus and species of planthopper is described from Dominican amber. The specimen contains a combination of features unknown in extant planthoppers, such as a unique spination of the second tarsal segment of the hind leg that consists of a central short bristly spineless pad with a large black-tipped spine on one side and a long setose lobe on the other side. The morphological features of the fossil add to the diversity of planthoppers and will be of interest to entomologists.

Technical Abstract: A new family, genus and species of Fulgoroidea (planthopper) is described from Dominican amber. The adult female of Paleotarsipes dominicus gen et sp. nov. in the new family Paleotarsipidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha) possesses a unique spination of the second tarsal segment of the hind leg that consists of a central short bristly spineless pad with a large black-tipped spine on one side and a long setose lobe on the other side, a feature that together with venational patterns prohibits its placement in any known extant or extinct family. Also of interest is a developed egg adjacent to the tip of the abdomen of the adult.