Liang Feiyang, Zhang Weiwei, Liu Xingyue
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; Email: unknown.
Three Gorges Entomological Museum, Chongqing 400015, China; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2016 Apr 25;4105(5):483-90. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.5.4.
Paraneoptera is a group of orders, representing one of the highly diverse clades of winged insects. Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossil paraneopterans include a few primitive species, which are significant for understanding the early evolution of Paraneoptera. Here we report a new genus and species, namely Burmopsylla maculata gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous (ca. 99 Myr) amber of Myanmar. The new genus belongs to the family Archipsyllidae by having hindwing similar to forewing (shape, size and venation), presence of forewing ra-rp, rp-m and cua-cup crossveins, two-branched R, four-branched M, and four-segmented tarsus. The new species represents the second species of Archipsyllidae in Cretaceous Burmese amber.
副新翅类是一类目，代表有翅昆虫中高度多样化的分支之一。古生代和中生代的副新翅类化石包括一些原始物种，这对于理解副新翅类的早期演化具有重要意义。在此我们报道一个新属和新种，即来自缅甸白垩纪中期（约9900万年前）琥珀中的黄斑缅甸蚤（Burmopsylla maculata），新属名及新种名。该新属属于拱蚤科，其特征为后翅与前翅相似（形状、大小和脉序），前翅存在ra-rp、rp-m和cua-cup横脉，R脉二分支，M脉四分支，跗节分四节。新物种是白垩纪缅甸琥珀中拱蚤科的第二个物种。
