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Issue: Vol. 4320 No. 3: 18 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.12
Page range: 597–600
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 2

New species of Compsocidae (Insecta, Psocodea) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, Branišovská 31, CZ-37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Psocoptera Troctomorpha Burmacompsocus fossils

Abstract

A new fossil species of the family Compsocidae, namely Burmacompsocus coniugans sp. nov. is described from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Diagnostic characters separating the new species from the previously known representatives of the genus are discussed. Details of mouthparts and genitalia are described for the genus for the first time. The discovery of the new species supports the hypothesis of higher Compsocidae diversity existing in the past compared with the present.

 

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