Abstract
new species of the fossil genus Otroacizzia Klimaszewski, 1996 (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) is described as Otroacizzia soriae sp. nov. on the basis of a female specimen. This species is preserved in mid-Miocene amber from La Toca mines, Dominican Republic. The genus Otroacizzia is the most diverse psylloid genus in Dominican amber, with four known species. The new species differs from the three previously known species by the presence of a subapical dark band in the fore wing from the anterior part of the end of vein Rs to the end of vein Cu1b, which has a gap in the middle of the cell c1. Other differences in the fore wing are the presence of a strongly curved vein Cu1b and a cell c1 clearly longer than cell m1. Finally, the antennal segment 3 of the new species is one and a half times longer than segment 4.
Highlights
Sternorrhyncha are typically divided into the superfamilies Psylloidea, Aleyrodoidea, Aphidoidea and Coccoidea
The fossil record of the family Psyllidae is very poor. This family of hemipterans has been found in amber (Baltic and Dominican ambers) and in laminate sediments originated in lacustrine environments around the world (e.g., 1 Museo Paleontológico de Elche (M.U.P.E.), Plaza de Sant Joan, 3
The species of the superfamily Psylloidea described from Dominican amber are the : Succinopsylla dominicana, Vicinilura reposta, Indepsylla mortua, Parapsyllopsis carabeus, Otroacizzia muta, O. prosapia, O. tertia, Paropsylla olima, Heterotrioza grimaldii, Rhinopsyllida acutealla, Primascena subita, Sulciana macroconi, and Trioacantha indocilia
Summary
Sternorrhyncha are typically divided into the superfamilies Psylloidea, Aleyrodoidea, Aphidoidea and Coccoidea. The fossil record of the family Psyllidae is very poor. Up to now, this family of hemipterans has been found in amber (Baltic and Dominican ambers) and in laminate sediments originated in lacustrine environments around the world The species of the superfamily Psylloidea described from Dominican amber are the : Succinopsylla dominicana, Vicinilura reposta, Indepsylla mortua, Parapsyllopsis carabeus, Otroacizzia muta, O. prosapia, O. tertia, Paropsylla olima, Heterotrioza grimaldii, Rhinopsyllida acutealla, Primascena subita, Sulciana macroconi, and Trioacantha indocilia. All these species were described by Klimaszewski (Klimaszewski, 1995, 1996 and 1998). We describe a new species of the fossil genus Otroacizzia Klimaszewski, 1996 on the basis of a female specimen from Dominican amber, extending the known number of species of this genus up to four
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