A new genus and species of Dictyopharidae (Homoptera) from Rovno and Baltic amber based on nymphs.

ABSTRACT: Alicodoxa rasnitsynigen. et sp. n. (Dictyopharinae: Orthopagini) is described based on a nymph from Rovno amber; it also occurs in Baltic amber. A small additional wax plate dorsal to the large wax plate of abdominal tergites VI-VIII is first reported in this and other genera of Dictyopharidae. A lectotype is designated for Pseudophana reticulata Germar & Berendt, 1856 transferred to Protepiptera (Achilidae): Protepiptera reticulata (Germar & Berendt, 1856), comb. n.

SUBMITTER: Emeljanov AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3260758 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature