Otroacizzia soriae sp. nov., a new Miocene psyllid (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psyllidae) from Dominican amber

E. Peñalver; V. García-Gimeno

doi:10.3989/egeol.0662119

Authors

E. Peñalver Museo Paleontológico de Elche (M.U.P.E.),
V. García-Gimeno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.0662119

Keywords:

amber, Miocene, insect, Psyllidae, Otroacizzia, sp. nov., Dominican Republic

Abstract

new species of the fossil genus Otroacizzia Klimaszewski, 1996 (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) is described as Otroacizzia soriae sp. nov. on the basis of a female specimen. This species is preserved in mid-Miocene amber from La Toca mines, Dominican Republic. The genus Otroacizzia is the most diverse psylloid genus in Dominican amber, with four known species. The new species differs from the three previously known species by the presence of a subapical dark band in the fore wing from the anterior part of the end of vein Rs to the end of vein Cu1b, which has a gap in the middle of the cell c1. Other differences in the fore wing are the presence of a strongly curved vein Cu1b and a cell c1 clearly longer than cell m1. Finally, the antennal segment 3 of the new species is one and a half times longer than segment 4.

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