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When did the Sternorrhyncha likely separate from the Auchenorrhyncha?
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Newly emerged adult cicada (Neotibicen pruinosus).
The Sternorrhyncha likely separated from the Auchenorrhyncha as early as the Lower Permian period, approximately 280 million years ago.1