Tainosia

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Tainosia
Temporal range: Burdigalian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Nogodinidae
Subfamily: Nogodininae
Tribe:
Nogodinini
Genus: †Tainosia
Szwedo & Stroiński, 2001
Species:
†T. quisqueyae
Binomial name
†Tainosia quisqueyae

Tainosia is an

monotypic genus of planthopper in the Nogodinidae subfamily Nogodininae and at present, it contains the single species Tainosia quisqueyae.[1] The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.[1][2]

History and classification

Tainosia quisqueyae is known only from one fossil, the holotype, number "BMNH Pal. PI II 62". It is a single individual of indeterminate sex preserved in a clear orange amber specimen.

Nogodinini. All other extinct members of the family Nogodinidae currently described from the Americas are restricted to the subfamily Nogodininae.[3]

Description

Tainosia quisqueyae is 14.4 millimetres (0.57 in) in length and has a wing length of 8.73 millimetres (0.344 in). Though similar to the related genus

mesonotum which is smooth and uninterrupted, while Tainosia has a mesonotum that bears anterolateral carinae.[1] The forewing of Tainosia has a costal cell and clavus without transverse veinlets, while Tonocatecutlius has a costal cell and clavus crossed by veinlets. Similar to Tonocatecutlius is the network of veins crossing the upper half of the tegmen.[1] The tegmen is semi-hyaline with faint but distinct color patterning present, the hindwing is hyaline and without any patterning.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Szwedo, J.; Stroiński, A. (2001). "Tainosia quisqueyae gen. and sp. nov. from the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae)" (PDF). Genus. 12 (1): 29–34.
  2. S2CID 129754021
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  3. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.005
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