Weiwoboa
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Weiwoboa Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
Superfamily: | †Fulgoridioidea |
Family: | †Weiwoboidae Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010 |
Genus: | †Weiwoboa Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010 |
Species: | †W. meridiana
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Binomial name | |
†Weiwoboa meridiana Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010
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Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of insects 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
[edit]- ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..751L. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.