A hairy-bodied tettigarctid (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) from the latest Middle Jurassic of northeast China

Abstract

Liu, X.H., Li, Y., Yao, Y.Z. & Ren, D., April 2016. A hairy-bodied tettigarctid (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) from the latest Middle Jurassic of northeast China. Alcheringa 40, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518

Extant tettigarctids are also known as hairy cicadas because they are covered by long and abundant hairs. This character had not been reported in fossil species of Tettigarctidae because previous examples were poorly preserved or lacked long hairs. Hirtaprosbole erromera gen. et sp. nov. (Tettigarctidae) with a hairy body, from the latest Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China, is described here. This new species provides evidence that tettigarctids with long dense hairs had appeared by the latest Middle Jurassic and lived at high altitudes.

Xiao-hui Liu [[email protected]], Yi Li [[email protected]], Yun-zhi Yao*[Corresponding author: [email protected]] and Dong Ren [[email protected]], College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Xisanhuanbeilu 105 Haidian District, Beijing, PR China 100048.

Key words:

• Tettigarctidae
• Hirtaprosbole
• taxonomy
• Mesozoic
• Daohugou
• hairy cicadas

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank Prof. Adam Ślipiński (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australian National Insect Collection), Prof. Hong Pang (State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institute, Sun Yat-Sen University), Dr Weiting Zhang (Geoscience Museum of Shijiazhuang University of Economics, Hebei Province), Dr Shu Li (Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Science) and Ms Chen Wang, Xiao Zhang and Di Tang of CNU for their critical review of the manuscript and kind help. This research was funded by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2012CB821906); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31372242, 31230065); the Project of Outstanding Young-Aged Talents of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (CIT&TCD201304163); the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13081), and the Project of Great Wall Scholars of the Beijing Municipal Commission.