Ignotingidae fam. nov. (Insecta: Heteroptera: Tingoidea), the earliest lace bugs from the upper Mesozoic of eastern China

A new species of Tingidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia

“…The families of Tingidae known now from the Cretaceous are two extant, Tingidae and Vianaididae (Popov, 1989; Golub and Popov, 1999, 2000, 2003, and the third, extinct one, Ignotingidae from the Laiyang Formation of East China (Zhang et al, 2005; in this and many other papers the formation is dated Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, but the earliest Cretaceous is much more probable: Rasnitsyn and Zherikhin, 2002). Besides these, from the French Cretaceous amber (Albian-Cenomanian) the genus Ebboa singled out into the family Ebboidae is described in Tingidae (Perrichot et al, 2006).…”

A new species of the family Hypsipterygidae from Vietnam, with notes on the hypsipterygid fore wing venation (Heteroptera, Dipsocoromorpha)

“…Some authors (Handlirsch 1908;Tanaka 1926;Davis 1961) identified it as the subcosta (Sc), others (e.g., Wootton & Betts 1986) as the fused costa and subcosta (C þ Sc). Based on a comparative study of the fossil record, Shcherbakov (1996) has recently shown that in all recent Hemiptera, C is retained; furthermore, Sc is fused not to the costal margin but to R (or R þ M), except for a free apical part (see also Zhang et al, 2005). Further on in this discussion, Shcherbakov's hypothesis is followed.…”

Description of three new species of Ceratocader (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Western Australia

“…Ceratocader has been considered a primitive group of Cantacaderinae by Zhang et al (2005), because species supposedly retain the basal cell of the hemelytron. These authors, however, only examined the illustration of C. armatus in Froeschner (1996, fi gure 7), the venation of which differs considerably from that given by Lis (2000, fi gure 3).…”