A new remarkable cimicoid genus and species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, with implications for its aberrant male genitalia

A new genus and species of cimicoid true bug, Ecpaglocoris ditomeus Yamada & Yamamoto, gen. et sp. nov. , is described illustrated from mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Albian) amber in the Kachin State northern Myanmar (Burma). This fossil reminiscent members Anthocoridae by strongly flattened elongated body, four-segmented labium, distinct costal fracture presence fossula spongiosa on fore tibiae, but should not be ascribed to this family. The taxon cannot placed any extant families, based upon hemelytral, male genital other morphological structures. Based hemelytral membrane venation dorsal laterotergites abdominal segments I VIII, it can assumed that belongs extinct family Vetanthocoridae. has aberrant genitalia characterised sickle-shaped left right parameres grooves running throughout paramere. characteristic indicates traumatic insemination occurred genus. peculiar combination characteristics seen prevents its placement families.