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SUBMITTER: Dietrich CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851209 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dietrich Christopher H CH Perkovsky Evgeny E EE
ZooKeys 20191105
<i>Sakhalotettix eocenicus</i> <b>gen. & sp. nov.</b>, the first leafhopper reported from middle Eocene Sakhalinian amber, is described and illustrated. The fossil cicadellid resembles modern Xestocephalini and Bathysmatophorini in some respects but, because of its unique combination of traits, cannot be placed with certainty in either group, or in any other modern cicadellid subfamily. It is, therefore, considered to be <i>incertae sedis</i> within Cicadellidae. ...[more]