Weiwoboa

Weiwoboa
Temporal range: Lower Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily: Fulgoroidea
Family: Weiwoboidae
Genus: Weiwoboa
Lin et al., 2010
Species: W. meridiana
Binomial name
Weiwoboa meridiana
Lin et al., 2010

Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of weiwoboid fulgoroid 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

  1. 1 2 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. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.


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