A new cockroach (Blattodea, Corydiidae) with pectinate antennae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Abstract
A new species of fossil cockroach,Fragosublatta pectinatagen. et sp. nov., is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new species is assigned to the family Corydiidae based on the following combination of characters: pronotum with tubercles, tegmina obovate with smallish anal region and spinules on the antero-ventral margin of the front femur (type C1). The new species is the second reported cockroach with ramified antennae. This finding broadens the diversity of Blattodea in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and provides further evidence of convergent evolution for antennal structures among different insect lineages.
- Publication:
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ZooKeys
- Pub Date:
- September 2021
- DOI:
- 10.3897/zookeys.1060.67216
- Bibcode:
- 2021ZooK.1060..155C