Jiania crebra Wang, Szwedo & Zhang 2012

Taxonomy

Froghopper

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Hemiptera Linnaeus 1758
Family: Sinoalidae Wang and Szwedo 2012
Genus: Jiania
Species: Jiania crebra
Author Citation Wang, Szwedo & Zhang 2012

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Callovian to Oxfordian

Stratigraphy

Jiulongshan Formation
Daohugou Bed

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 13 mm

Location

Daohugou (Village)
Ningcheng (County)
Inner Mongolia (Province)
China

• daohugou
• froghopper
• inner mongolia
• jiania
• jiulongshan
• jurassic

Comments

Taxonomy from Chen et al. 2019.

Diagnosis from Wang et al., p. 1233: "Tegmen c. 3.5 times as long as wide, with apex widely rounded; basal cell c. 0.17 times as long as tegmen length, closed with anastomosis; common stalk ScR + M very short; branch ScRA c. 1.5 times as long as stem ScR; stem CuA at base distinctly convex, forking basad of claval apex; stigmal cell narrow, c. half as wide as radial cell."

Line drawing from Wang et al. 2012, p. 1227:

 

References:
WANG, B., SZWEDO, J. & ZHANG, H. (2012). NEW JURASSIC CERCOPOIDEA FROM CHINA AND THEIR EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE (INSECTA: HEMIPTERA) Palaeontology, Vol. 55, Part 6, 2012, pp. 1223–1243]
Chen, J., Wang, B., Zheng, Y., Jiang, H., Jiang, T., Zhang, J. Q.,  An, B. Z. and Zhang, H. C. (2019). New fossil data and phylogenetic inferences shed light on the morphological disparity of Mesozoic Sinoalidae (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19:287-302 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]