A new genus and species of tettigarctid cicada from the early Miocene of New Zealand: Paratettigarctazealandica (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Tettigarctidae)

Uwe Kaulfuss; Max Moulds

doi:10.3897/zookeys.484.8883

A new genus and species of tettigarctid cicada from the early Miocene of New Zealand: Paratettigarctazealandica (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Tettigarctidae)

Zookeys. 2015 Mar 6:(484):83-94. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.484.8883. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Uwe Kaulfuss¹, Max Moulds²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
² Department of Entomology, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.

Abstract

A new genus and species of primitive cicada (Hemiptera: Tettigarctidae) is described from the early Miocene of southern New Zealand. Paratettigarctazealandica gen. et sp. n. is the first cicada (Cicadoidea) fossil from New Zealand and exhibits wing venation patterns typical for the subfamily Tettigarctinae. It differs from other fossil taxa and the extant genus Tettigarcta in the early divergence of CuA2 from the nodal line in the forewing, its parallel-sided subcostal cell, the early bifurcation of vein M and long apical cells of the hindwing, and in wing pigmentation patterns.

Keywords: Cicadoidea; Hindon Maar; Miocene; New Zealand; Otago; Tettigarctidae.