Abstract
The present paper describes a male coccid (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber with the largest known hamulohalteres on any extant or extinct coccid. Aside from this character, the specimen has an unusual assortment of features, including a prolonged head with three cylindrical dorsal simple eyes in three rows joining laterally, a single ocellus dorsally placed at apex of a prolonged head, compound eyes in a ventro-lateral position and a 10-segmented antennae longer than body length. These features prohibit it from being assigned to any known extant or extinct family. Whether the large hamulohalteres on Adocimycolus aarondavisii gen. et sp. nov. are evidence of a plesiomorphic state of a lineage of Mesozoic Coccoidea that had fully developed metathoracic wings or could be a genetic mutation, is addressed.
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