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Weiwoboa

Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of insects which existed in what is now China during the early Eocene period. It was named by Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying and Adam Stroiński in 2010, and the type species is Weiwoboa meridiana.

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Weiwoboa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily: †Fulgoridioidea
Family: †Weiwoboidae
Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010
Genus: †Weiwoboa
Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010
Species:
†W. meridiana
Binomial name
†Weiwoboa meridiana
Lin, Szwedo, Huang & Stroiński, 2010

Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of insects which existed in what is now China during the early Eocene period.1 It was named by Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying and Adam Stroiński in 2010, and the type species is Weiwoboa meridiana.1

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  1. Lin Qibin; Jacek Szwedo; Huang Diying; Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of 'Higher' Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 751–755. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..751L. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.