Parasinoala magnus Fu & Huang 2019

Taxonomy

Froghopper

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Hemiptera Linnaeus 1758
Family: Sinoalidae Wang and Szwedo 2012
Genus: Parasinoala
Species: Parasinoala magnus
Author Citation Fu & Huang 2019

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: 17 mm

Location

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

• daohugou
• froghopper
• jiulongshan
• nei mongol
• parasinoala
• tff-oilshale-ar2794

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.com.

Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the large size of the adult.
Diagnosis from Fu & Huang (2019) p. 7:. Body length 15.3–16.1mm; tegmen with small dark bands on the median section, length/width ratio 3.3; ScP+RA relatively short, nearly 1.6 times longer than ScP+RA; RA with 2–3 branches; MP3+4 connecting CuA1 by cross-vein m-cu; hind wings, MP branching basal of CuA branching; cross-vein r-m basal of m-cu.
Line drawings from Fu & Huang (2019) p. 8 and 9:

Parasinoala magnus

Scale bar 2 mm

 

Left tegmen of Parasinoala magnus

Right hind wings of Parasinoala minuta
Scale bar 1 mm

References:

Yanzhe Fu & Diying Huang (2019): New sinoalids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cercopoidea) from Middle to Upper Jurassic strata at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China, Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2018.1528509