Dany Azar, Sibelle Maksoud, Ninon Robin, Pascal Godefroit, Lionel Cavin, Sébastien Olive, Kévin Rey, Nathan Vallée-Gillette, Léa De Brito, Georges Heneine, and André Nel (2024)
The first and oldest record of Issidae from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)
Zootaxa, 5562(1):38-44.
Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. is illustrated and described from the Lower Cretaceous dysodile (oil papershales) of Bkassine, South Lebanon, and its taxonomic position discussed. Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. is characterized by its banded legs and body, a hind wing with two lobes, RA and RP very short, M with only two very short apical branches, CuA with two branches, and a small but distinct apical furcation of PCu close to the incision of the wing margin. Libanissus bkassinensis Azar, Maksoud & Nel, gen. et sp. nov. represents the earliest record (lower Barremian) of the Issidae. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known record was from the Paleocene of France.
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Insecta, Fulgoromorpha, Issinae, Barremian, first occurrence
- DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5562.1.7
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