New fossil taxa of Monophlebidae (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) from Baltic amber

Abstract

The family Monophlebidae is distributed worldwide and is classified as one of the "archaeococcoid" families. After almost 160 years since Germar & Berendt (1856) described the first and so far only fossil monophlebid species, Monophlebus irregularis, two new fossil species of a new and undoubtedly monophlebid genus Palaeophlebus gen. n. are described from Baltic amber. Morphological features of the new genus and its two species, P. hoffeinorum sp. n. and P. kotejai sp. n., are discussed.

Keywords

• sternorrhyncha
• coccoidea
• monophlebidae
• palaeophlebus
• new genus
• new species
• fossil
• eocene
• systematics