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A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The superfamily Cercopoidea is commonly named as “spittlebugs”, as its nymphs excrete a spittle mass to protect themselves and hide from predators and parasites. Cosmoscartini (Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) is a large and brightly colored Old World tropical tribe, including 11 genera. A n...

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Autores principales: Xu, Xiao-Ting, Szwedo, Jacek, Huang, Di-Ying, Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong, Obroślak, Martyna, Wu, Fei-Xiang, Su, Tao
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9503688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135471
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13090770
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author Xu, Xiao-Ting
Szwedo, Jacek
Huang, Di-Ying
Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong
Obroślak, Martyna
Wu, Fei-Xiang
Su, Tao
author_facet Xu, Xiao-Ting
Szwedo, Jacek
Huang, Di-Ying
Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong
Obroślak, Martyna
Wu, Fei-Xiang
Su, Tao
author_sort Xu, Xiao-Ting
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: The superfamily Cercopoidea is commonly named as “spittlebugs”, as its nymphs excrete a spittle mass to protect themselves and hide from predators and parasites. Cosmoscartini (Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) is a large and brightly colored Old World tropical tribe, including 11 genera. A new genus Nangamostethos gen. nov. (type species: Nangamostethos tibetense sp. nov.) of Cosmoscartini is described from Niubao Formation, the late Eocene (ca. 39 million years ago) of central Tibetan Plateau (TP), China. Its placement is ensured by comparison with all the extant genera of the tribe Cosmoscartini. The new fossil represents one of the few fossil Cercopidae species described from Asia. It is likely that Nangamostethos was extinct from the TP due to the regional aridification and an overturn of plant taxa in the last 33 million years. ABSTRACT: The superfamily Cercopoidea is commonly named as “spittlebugs”, as its nymphs produce a spittle mass to protect themselves. Cosmoscartini (Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) is a large and brightly colored Old World tropical tribe, including 11 genera. A new genus Nangamostethos gen. nov. (type species: Nangamostethos tibetense sp. nov.) of Cosmoscartini is described from Niubao Formation, the late Eocene of central Tibetan Plateau (TP), China. Its placement is ensured by comparison with all the extant genera of the tribe Cosmoscartini. The new fossil represents one of few fossil Cercopidae species described from Asia. It is likely that Nangamostethos was extinct from the TP due to the regional aridification and an overturn of plant taxa in the late Paleogene.
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spelling pubmed-95036882022-09-24 A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau † Xu, Xiao-Ting Szwedo, Jacek Huang, Di-Ying Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong Obroślak, Martyna Wu, Fei-Xiang Su, Tao Insects Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: The superfamily Cercopoidea is commonly named as “spittlebugs”, as its nymphs excrete a spittle mass to protect themselves and hide from predators and parasites. Cosmoscartini (Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) is a large and brightly colored Old World tropical tribe, including 11 genera. A new genus Nangamostethos gen. nov. (type species: Nangamostethos tibetense sp. nov.) of Cosmoscartini is described from Niubao Formation, the late Eocene (ca. 39 million years ago) of central Tibetan Plateau (TP), China. Its placement is ensured by comparison with all the extant genera of the tribe Cosmoscartini. The new fossil represents one of the few fossil Cercopidae species described from Asia. It is likely that Nangamostethos was extinct from the TP due to the regional aridification and an overturn of plant taxa in the last 33 million years. ABSTRACT: The superfamily Cercopoidea is commonly named as “spittlebugs”, as its nymphs produce a spittle mass to protect themselves. Cosmoscartini (Cercopoidea: Cercopidae) is a large and brightly colored Old World tropical tribe, including 11 genera. A new genus Nangamostethos gen. nov. (type species: Nangamostethos tibetense sp. nov.) of Cosmoscartini is described from Niubao Formation, the late Eocene of central Tibetan Plateau (TP), China. Its placement is ensured by comparison with all the extant genera of the tribe Cosmoscartini. The new fossil represents one of few fossil Cercopidae species described from Asia. It is likely that Nangamostethos was extinct from the TP due to the regional aridification and an overturn of plant taxa in the late Paleogene. MDPI 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9503688/ /pubmed/36135471 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13090770 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Xu, Xiao-Ting
Szwedo, Jacek
Huang, Di-Ying
Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong
Obroślak, Martyna
Wu, Fei-Xiang
Su, Tao
A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title_full A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title_fullStr A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title_full_unstemmed A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title_short A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau †
title_sort new genus of spittlebugs (hemiptera, cercopidae) from the eocene of central tibetan plateau †
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9503688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135471
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13090770
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