Abstract
A fossil specimen of the jumping plant-louse genus Cacopsylla (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) is described from lacustrine sediments of the middle Pleistocene Miyajima Formation of the Shiobara Group in Tochigi Prefecture, central Japan. It is the first report of a psylloid fossil from Japan. The specimen is a compression fossil of almost whole insect body, and the superb preservation of forewings with delicate veins and membrane tissues strongly suggests that it can be most probably identified as Cacopsylla abieti (Kuwayama), which is a common extant psyllid species in the fossil locality, or possibly its most closely relative of continental east Asia, Cacopsylla pseudosieboldiani (Konovalova and Loginova). The fossil-yielding stratum is a Lagerstatte known for the abundant fossil leaves and other fossil organisms. Extant C. abieti feeds on Siebold’s maple Acer sieboldianum, and remains of various species of Acer including A. sieboldianum are common components of Shiobara fossil biota.
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