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7 September 2022 Geometric morphometric analysis for the systematic elucidation of new Hylicellidae from the Jurassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)
Jun Chen, Qianqi Zhang, Hui Jiang, Yuling Li, Yan Zheng, Shuai Yu, Xiaoli Wang, Haichun Zhang
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Abstract

The extinct family Hylicellidae, as the ancestral group of modern cicadomorphans, had a wide distribution and a very high species-level biodiversity from the Triassic to Early Cretaceous. We herein report 11 new hylicellid specimens from the Jurassic Daohugou beds of Inner Mongolia, NE China, and execute geometric morphometric analysis (GMA) to elucidate their systematic position. Our GMA and subsequent morphometric statistics indicate that 10 of our new specimens can be compared to the holotype of Cycloscytina gobiensis, and one is new to science. Cycloscytina incompleta new species is erected based on this specimen, with the following discriminatory tegminal traits: C3 almost as long as and slightly narrower than C2, and the forking position of stem M distinctly migrates towards wing apex and much apicad of the stem CuA bifurcating. Additionally, Cycloscytina plachutai is herein transferred to the procercopid genus Procercopina, resulting in P. plachutai new combination. To date, just a few body structures of Hylicellidae have been revealed, and the new whole-bodied hylicellids reported herein provide some novel insights on the evolution of basal Clypeata. This study also emphasizes the use of morphometric analysis in the systematics of wing-bearing insects such as hylicellids.

Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Paleontological Society
Jun Chen, Qianqi Zhang, Hui Jiang, Yuling Li, Yan Zheng, Shuai Yu, Xiaoli Wang, and Haichun Zhang "Geometric morphometric analysis for the systematic elucidation of new Hylicellidae from the Jurassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)," Journal of Paleontology 96(5), 1119-1131, (7 September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2022.20
Accepted: 10 March 2022; Published: 7 September 2022
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