Historia naturalis bulgarica (Feb 2025)

First record of a fossil spittlebug (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Aphrophoridae) in Miocene deposits in Bulgaria

  • Radost Angelova,
  • Ilia Gjonov,
  • Vladimir Bozukov,
  • Nikolay Simov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47, no. 2
pp. 33 – 38

Abstract

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The first fossil record of a spittlebug affiliated to Aphrophora Germar, 1821 (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae) is reported from Bulgaria (Western Rhodopes, Satovcha Graben). The fossil from Middle Miocene deposits represents the first recorded evidence of fossil Auchenorrhyncha in Bulgaria. A forewing illustration of the new finding and review of known fossils of Aphrophora are provided.

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