First record of adult Dorytocidae — Dorytocus jiaxiaoae Song, Szwedo & Bourgoin sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

2021 
Abstract A new species, Dorytocus jiaxiaoae Song, Szwedo & Bourgoin sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. This species represents the first record of the adult of the extinct family Dorytocidae. The supplementary description for the fourth-instar nymph of Dorytocus ornithorhynchus Emeljanov & Shcherbakov is provided. The morphological peculiarities of the new fossil species are briefly discussed, and the diagnostic characters of the family diagnosis are suggested and improved is now based on the combination of both adult and nymph characters.
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