Two new species of lace bugs from Dominican amber and a new species from Colombian copal (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae)

Viktor B Golub; Ernst Heiss

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.8

Two new species of lace bugs from Dominican amber and a new species from Colombian copal (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae)

Zootaxa. 2018 Jul 10;4444(3):333-341. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.8.

Authors

Viktor B Golub¹, Ernst Heiss

Affiliation

¹ Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394018 Russia.. v.golub@inbox.ru.

PMID: 30313928
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.8

Abstract

Two new fossil species (Phatnoma pulchra sp. nov., Leptopharsa antica sp. nov.) of the family Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Dominican amber (Dominican Republic) and one new species (Leptopharsa colombiana sp. nov.) from Colombian copal (Colombia) are described and illustrated with photos. Features of similarities and differences from closely related fossil and recent species are given.

Keywords: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Tingidae, amber, Dominican, copal, Colombian, new species.

MeSH terms

Amber*
Animals
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Heteroptera*

Substances

Amber