Tainosia

Tainosia
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Family: Nogodinidae
Subfamily: Nogodininae
Tribe: Nogodinini
Genus: Tainosia
Szwedo & Stroiński, 2001
Species:
T. quisqueyae
Binomial name
Tainosia quisqueyae

Tainosia is an extinct monotypic genus of planthopper in the Nogodinidae subfamily Nogodininae and at present, it contains the single species Tainosia quisqueyae.[1] The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Szwedo, J.; Stroiński, A. (2001). "Tainosia quisqueyae gen. and sp. nov. from the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae)" (PDF). Genus. 12 (1): 29–34.
  2. ^ Iturralde-Vinent, M. A.; MacPhee, R. D. E. (1996). "Age and paleogeographical origin of Dominican amber". Science. 273 (5283): 1850–1852. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1850I. doi:10.1126/science.273.5283.1850. JSTOR 2891099. S2CID 129754021.

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