''Protepiptera'' is a genus of fossil
planthopper
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...
s belonging to the family
Achilidae
Achilidae is a family of planthoppers, sometimes called "achilids" in the order Hemiptera
Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising more than 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, pla ...
.
The species of this genus are found as
inclusions in amber on the coasts of southern
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
.
Species
Species:
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Protepiptera kaweckii''
*''
Protepiptera reticulata''
References
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Prehistoric insects of Europe
Achilidae
Hemiptera genera