A new family of froghoppers from the American tropics (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Epipygidae)

Hamilton, K. G. A.

doi:10.1080/14888386.2001.9712551

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“…T he hemipteran superfamily Cercopoidea Leach, 1815, comprising approximately 2500 described species, is the second largest group of the Recent Cicadomorpha (Hamilton 2001; Dietrich 2002; Soulier‐Perkins 2012). It differs generally from another three extant superfamilies of Cicadomorpha (Cicadoidea Latreille, 1802, Membracoidea Rafinesque, 1815 and Myerslopioidea Hamilton, 1999) by the conical hind coxa, cylindrical tibia, often with one or more large preapical spines, and body and wing surfaces clothed with fine setae (Szwedo et al.…”

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“…Some groups exhibit a strong preference for nitrogen‐fixing angiosperms (Borror and White 1970; Thompson 1994; Carvalho and Webb 2005). The superfamily is taxonomically divided into three to seven families: Cercopidae Leach, 1815 and Aphrophoridae Amyot and Serville, 1843 (postulated to be paraphyletic by Hamilton 2001) are cosmopolitan groups and mainly occur in pantropical area: Clastopteridae Dohrn, 1859 in North and South America; Epipygidae Hamilton, 2001 in tropical America; and Machaerotidae Stål, 1866 (proposed to be synonymized with Clastopteridae by Hamilton 2001) is confined in the Oriental region, tropical Africa and Australia (Hamilton 1999; Dietrich 2003; Cryan and Svenson 2010; Soulier‐Perkins 2012). The extinct family Cercopionidae Hamilton, 1990 is only found in the Early Cretaceous of Brazil.…”

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New Jurassic Cercopoidea from China and their evolutionary significance (Insecta: Hemiptera)

2012

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A new family, Sinoalidae Wang and Szwedo fam. nov., is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou Biota (Inner Mongolia, China). Two new genera with three new species (Sinoala parallelivena Wang and Szwedo gen. et sp. nov., Jiania crebra Wang and Szwedo gen. et sp. nov., and Jiania gracila Wang and Szwedo sp. nov.) are erected based on well‐preserved whole‐bodied specimens. The morphological characters of Procercopidae and the new family are given, and a key to the species of Sinoalidae is presented. The genera Luanpingia Hong, 1983 and Huabeicercopis Hong, 1983 are revised and attributed to Sinoalidae. The genera Mesocercopis Hong, 1983 and Sinotettegarcta Hong, 1986 are considered junior synonyms of Anthoscytina Hong, 1983. Taxa assigned to Sinoalidae fam. nov. cannot be attributed to any previously known family, but share some general (plesiomorphic) characters with ancient Clypeata, for example, postclypeus distinctly swollen, transversely wrinkled, antenna with a flagellum of a few elongate segments, frons with median ocellus and lateral ocelli on crown. Moreover, the new family is closely related to Procercopidae (Cercopoidea) based on a pronotum with a median incision at the hind margin; tegmen slender, partly punctuate, basal portion of Sc not exceeding apex of basal cell, and hind legs with lateral spines. It has a mixture of ancestral characters shared with Hylicelloidea and Jurassic Procercopidae and some derived characters. Therefore, it is tentatively placed in Cercopoidea. A preliminary phylogram of Clypeata is presented based on the combination of fossil and morphological data.

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New Jurassic Cercopoidea from China and their evolutionary significance (Insecta: Hemiptera)

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“…Extant froghoppers, both males and females, have symmetric genitalia [21], [23]–[25]. The genitalia of a representative extant froghopper of Cosmoscarta heros (Fabricius) are shown in Figs.…”

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Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China

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BackgroundMating behaviors have been widely studied for extant insects. However, cases of mating individuals are particularly rare in the fossil record of insects, and most of them involved preservation in amber while only in rare cases found in compression fossils. This considerably limits our knowledge of mating position and genitalia orientation during the Mesozoic, and hinders our understanding of the evolution of mating behaviors in this major component of modern ecosystems.Principal FindingHere we report a pair of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua sp. nov., referable to the Procercopidae, from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China. They exhibit belly-to-belly mating position as preserved, with male's aedeagus inserting into the female's bursa copulatrix. Abdominal segments 8 to 9 of male are disarticulated suggesting these segments were twisted and flexed during mating. Due to potential taphonomic effect, we cannot rule out that they might have taken side-by-side position, as in extant froghoppers. Genitalia of male and female, based on paratypes, show symmetric structures.Conclusions/SignificanceOur findings, consistent with those of extant froghoppers, indicate froghoppers' genitalic symmetry and mating position have remained static for over 165 million years.

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“…The hemipteran superfamily Cercopoidea Leach, 1815 is the second largest superfamily in the Cicadomorpha, comprising approximately 3000 described species (Hamilton, 2001;Dietrich, 2002). It differs from other extant superfamilies' of Cicadomorpha in having conical and short hind coxa, c ylindrical hind tibia with one or more large spines and a body clothed in fi ne setae (Szwedo et al, 2004;Dietrich, 2005).…”

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New fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle to Upper Jurassic deposits in northeastern China

Fu¹,

Huang²

2018

Eur. J. Entomol.

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A new family of froghoppers from the American tropics (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Epipygidae)

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New Jurassic Cercopoidea from China and their evolutionary significance (Insecta: Hemiptera)

New Jurassic Cercopoidea from China and their evolutionary significance (Insecta: Hemiptera)

Forever Love: The Hitherto Earliest Record of Copulating Insects from the Middle Jurassic of China

New fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from the Middle to Upper Jurassic deposits in northeastern China

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