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TAINOSIA
(tien-oh-se-ah)
Named By: J. Szwedo & A. Stroinski in 2001
Time Period: Burdigalian
Location: Dominican Republic
Size: About 14.4 millimetres long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Single specimen preserved in amber
Classification: | Arthropoda | Insecta | Hemiptera | Nogodinidae |
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Tainosia is an extinct monotypic genus of planthopper in the Nogodinidae subfamily Nogodininae and at present, it contains the single species Tainosia quisqueyae. The genus is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.

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