Aviorrhynchidae Nel, Bourgoin, Engel & Szwedo, 2013

Bourgoin, Thierry & Szwedo, Jacek, 2023, Toward a new classification of planthoppers Hemiptera Fulgoromorpha: 2. Higher taxa, their names and their composition, Zootaxa 5297 (4), pp. 562-568 : 563-564

1. Aviorrhynchidae Nel, Bourgoin, Engel & Szwedo, 2013

Aviorrhynchidae sec. Nel et al., 2013: family: 258.

Type-genus: Aviorrhyncha Nel, Bourgoin, Engel & Szwedo, 2013 (in Nel et al., 2013: 258)

Type-species: Aviorrhyncha magnifica Nel, Bourgoin, Engel & Szwedo, 2013 (in Nel et al., 2013: 258, 2c-e; Extended data figs. 5a, b; 6a)

Chronostratigraphic occurrence: Carboniferous, Moscovian (315.2-308 Ma). Known from single fossil occurrence: Aviorrhyncha magnifica Nel, Bourgoin, Engel & Szwedo, 2013 in Nel et al., 2013.

Note. The monospecific Aviorrhynchidae belong to a distinct lineage from the following Eucixioidian one. Both lineages would need a more specific analysis before gaining a formal rank within the clade Euhemiptera sec. Zrzavý, 1990 (synonym of Hemelytrata sec. Fallén, 1829; Szwedo, 2018).