ZooKeys (Nov 2024)

An additional ✝Archearadinae flat-bug species from Cretaceous Burmese Amber (Hemiptera, Aradidae)

  • Royce T. Cumming,
  • Julia J. Mlynarek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1219.137409
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1219
pp. 123 – 133

Abstract

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Currently 19 species of Aradidae (flat bugs) are known from the Cretaceous deposits of Burma (Burmese/Kachin amber). In reviewing unidentified aradid species from this deposit, an unnamed species was located. This aradid includes a unique combination of features from several Cretaceous aradid genera coupled with apomorphic antennae morphology allows easy differentiation from other aradids. Therefore, a new genus and species is herein described as Sauronaradus meganae gen. et. sp. nov. to accommodate these unique features.