The discovery of a new aleurodicine whitefly in Cenomanian Burmese amber (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae). (June 2022) - Chen, Jun
Abstract: Aleyrodomorpha, known as whiteflies, is an extremely specialized infraorder of tiny hemipteran insects, with relative scarcity of fossil records in the Mesozoic Lagerstätten. We herein describe and illustrate a new aleurodicine whitefly, Burmodicus monlyae Chen et Zhuo, sp. nov., based upon a fossil trapped in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar. The new species can be easily discriminated from its congener by possessing a series of fore- and hind wing characters, e.g., fore wing with costal area and clavus with tip almost at same level, R branching distinctly basad of CuP ending, RP not ending at wing tip and almost at same level of CuA ending, and hind wing with RP just lightly longer than RA. Our find further adds new knowledge on the palaeo-biodiversity of early Aleyrodomorpha.