Archijassidae
Temporal range: Norian–Cenomanian
Mesojassus ipsviciensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Family: Archijassidae
Becker-Migdisova 1962
Subfamilies and genera

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Archijassidae is an extinct family of leafhoppers known from the Late Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous. It is the oldest member of Membracoidea, and is considered ancestral to modern leafhoppers and treehoppers.

Taxonomy

Shcherbakov 2012 divided the family into 3 subfamilies, Shcherbakov considered the subfamily Dellasharinae to be ancestral to modern treehoppers and leafhoppers.[1]

References

  1. ^ D. E. Shcherbakov. 2012. More on Mesozoic Membracoidea (Homoptera). Russian Entomological Journal 21:15-22
  2. ^ Chen, Jun; Wang, Bo; Zheng, Yan; Jiang, Hui; Jiang, Tian; Wang, Xiaoli; Zhang, Haichun (February 2020). "The youngest record of the leafhopper family Archijassidae in Kachin amber from the lowermost Upper Cretaceous of northern Myanmar (Cicadomorpha, Cicadelloidea)". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104252. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104252. S2CID 204256956.
  3. ^ Lambkin, Kevin J. (2020-01-07). "Revision of Mesojassus Tillyard, 1916, from the Late Triassic of Queensland (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Membracoidea: Archijassidae)". Zootaxa. 4718 (3): 413–422. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4718.3.9. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 32230033. S2CID 213692312.