Hispanocaderidae n. fam. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingoidea), one of the oldest lace bugs from the Lower Cretaceous Álava amber (Spain)
Author
Golub, V. B.
Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394006 Russia. E-mail: v. golub @ inbox. ru
Author
Popov, Yu. A.
Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str., 123, Moscow 117997 Russia.
Author
Arillo, A.
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-04-17
3270
1
41
50
https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3270.1.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3270.1.3
1175-5326
5249318
Family:
Hispanocaderidae Golub, Popov
et
Arillo
,
n. fam.
Type
genus:
Hispanocader
n. gen.
Included genera:
Hispanocader
Diagnosis.
Head nude, without macrochaetae. Antennae 4-segmented. Antennal segment I is very short, segment II is the longest. Eyes are large, especially their part, located on the ventral side of head, where they cover a significant part of its surface. Simple ocelli present. Rostrum long, 4-segmented. Bucculae widely divergent anteriorly and broad open in front, so that clypeus seen from the anterliorly and dorsally. Pro-, meso-and metasternal laminae on the sides of rostrum absent. Hemelytra and the lateral margins of pronotum (paranota) small areolated. Pronotum does not cover scutellum and leaves it completely exposed. Hemelytra divided by longitudinal veins into costal, subcostal, discoidal and sutural areas. Stenocostal area absent. Discoidal and sutural areas divided into large areolae by transverse veins. Hemelytral venation comparatively rich. Veins
R+M
and
CuA
not confluent in the apical part of hemelytra. Clavus separated from corium by comissure. Ventral surface of hemelytral base has a short transverse groove passing from scent gland pore to costal area. Abdominal laterotergites broad and separated from mediotergites by suture dorsally and ventrally. Tarsi 2-segmented.