Cedusa
Cedusa is a genus of derbid planthoppers in the family Derbidae. There are more than 170 described species in Cedusa.

Judy Gallagher · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CedusiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cedusa on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Cedusa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cedusa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Abaristophora (Antipodiphora) domicamberae1 site
- Achrysocharoides1 site
- Agelaia electra1 site
- Anaplecta1 site
- Anaplecta vega1 site
- Anochetus intermedius1 site
- Anticedusa dominicana1 site
- Antillostenochrus pseudoannulatus1 site
- Aquitanoscia chiapasensis1 site
- Aquitanoscia maternus1 site
- Bradysia dimidiata1 site
- Bradysia exoleta1 site
- Chrysonotomyia dominicana1 site
- Constrictotermes electroconstrictus1 site
- Corynoptera iocosa1 site
- Corynoptera prisca1 site
- Cratyna interposita1 site
- Dysimia imprudens1 site
- Galianora marcoi1 site
- Idiogaryops pumilus1 site
- Ikelus nuxibus1 site
- Marava antiqua1 site
- Marava brevicauda1 site
- Mastotermes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cedusa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Predator-predator-prey interaction between spiders and insects: first fossil evidence from 23 million-year old Chiapas amber syninclusion1
- Cedusa baylissae sp. nov. from Oligocene/Miocene Mexican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Derbidae)1
- Kinnaridae and Derbidae (Homoptera, Fulgoroidea) from the Dominican amber1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cedusa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Judy Gallagher
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cedusa was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cedusa”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCedusini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fowler 1904