Weiwoboa
| Weiwoboa Temporal range: Lower Eocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Superfamily: | Fulgoroidea |
| Family: | Weiwoboidae |
| Genus: | Weiwoboa Lin et al., 2010 |
| Species: | W. meridiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Weiwoboa meridiana Lin et al., 2010 | |
Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of weiwoboid fulgoroid which existed in what is now China during the early Eocene period.[1] It was named by Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying and Adam Stroiński in 2010, and the type species is Weiwoboa meridiana.[1]
References
- 1 2 Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying, Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of ‘Higher’ Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 751–755. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.
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