Insecta - Hemiptera - Achilidae

Synonym: Cixidia christinae Lefebvre et al. 2007

Full reference: R. L. Usinger. 1939. Protepiptera, a new genus of Achilidae from Baltic amber (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea). Psyche 46:65-67

Belongs to Protepiptera according to A. F. Emeljanov and D. E. Shcherbakov 2009

Sister taxon: Protepiptera reticulata

Type specimens:

• Protepiptera kaweckii: PIN 964/702, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Yantarnyi village (PIN collection 964), which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
• Cixidia christinae: MNHN BA 4455, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, MNHN collection, which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber in Poland.

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