Mimarachnidae

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Mimarachnidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Turonian
Mimaplax ekrypsan
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha
Infraorder: Fulgoromorpha
Superfamily: Fulgoroidea
Family: Mimarachnidae
Shcherbakov, 2007
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Mimarachnidae is an extinct family of planthoppers known from the Cretaceous period. Their name is derived from spots on the wings of the first described genera, Mimarachne and Saltissus, being suggestive of spider mimicry,[1] but these characters are not distinctive for the family as a whole.[2] The family is characterised by "simplified venation and setigerous metatibial pecten and hind leg armature".[3] as well as "rounded anterior margin of pronotum, double carination of pronotum and mesonotum"[2]

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