New Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodomorpha) from Eocene Baltic amber

Abstract

ABSTRACT.A new genus and species of whitefly from Eocene Baltic amber is described. Paernis gregorius gen. et sp. n. is placed in the subfamily Aleurodicinae. Other findings of Aleyrodidae including 'Aleyrodes' aculeatus MENGE, 1856 from Baltic amber are discussed.

Aphids, true hoppers, jumping plant-lice, scale insects, true bugs and whiteflies (Insecta: Hemiptera) from the Insect Limestone (latest Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK

“…The oldest known whiteflies so far are of the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan (Shcherbakov 2000a); some others are recorded from the Early Cretaceous of England, Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber, Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber Early Eocene Oise amber and Middle Eocene Baltic amber (Schlee 1970; Shcherbakov 2000a; Azar 2007; Drohojowska & Szwedo 2011a, b, 2013a, b, 2015; Drohojowska et al 2015; Szwedo & Drohojowska 2016), Middle Eocene Geiseltal fossil Lagerstätte (Weigelt 1940). Whiteflies are also recorded in Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers (Poinar 1992; Wu 1996), and Miocene Ethiopian amber (Schmidt et al .…”

“…Aleyrodomorpha are recorded in several Palaeogene ambers: 'Aleurodes' aculeatus Menge, 1856, Paernis gregorius Drohojowska & Szwedo, 2011b, Rovnodicus wojciechowskii and Snotra christelae Szwedo & Drohojowska, 2016 from Baltic amber (Szwedo & Drohojowska 2016) and few additional specimens under survey; several taxa from the lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (Drohojowska & Szwedo 2013a) must be noted. Aleyrodomorpha as compression fossils from the Bembridge Marls were reported by Jarzembowski & Ross (1994).…”

Discovery of the Puparia of a Whitefly Species Found on Malvaceae in the Pliocene Rajdanda Formation, Jharkhand, Eastern India

“…The fossil record of the family Aleyrodidae reaches back to the Late Jurassic [10,15]. Other fossils (but only a few formally described species) have been reported from the sedimentary deposits and fossil resins aged as Lower Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene [10,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Findings of the puparia of fossil whiteflies on their fossil host plants are very rare [17,26,[30][31][32], and only solitary specimens have been found so far.…”

New genus and species of Aleyrodidae from Eocene Baltic amber (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodomorpha)

“…The Aleyrodidae WESTWOOD, 1840, commonly known as whiteflies, is a family of Sternorrhyncha (Hemiptera) common in tropical and subtropical zones worldwide, with far fewer species in temperate zones. The subfamilies of Aleyrodidae currently recognized are the extinct Bernaeinae SHCHERBAKOV, 2000, and the recent ones Aleurodicinae QUAINTANCE et BAKER, 1913, Aleyrodinae WESTWOOD, 1840and Udamoselinae ENDERLEIN, 1909(DROHOJOWSKA & SZWEDO 2011a, 2011b, 2013a, 2013b, 2015; the taxonomic status of the last mentioned is disputed (SHCHERBAKOV 2000, MARTIN 2007.…”

“…The fossil record of whiteflies stretches back to the Jurassic (SHCHERBAKOV 2000, DROHOJOWSKA & SZWEDO 2015. Several taxa have been described from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (SCHLEE 1970, DROHOJOWSKA & SZWEDO 2013a, 2015, early Eocene amber of Oise, France (DROHOJOWSKA & SZWEDO 2013b) and Eocene Baltic amber (MENGE 1856, DROHOJOWSKA & SZWEDO 2011b. A few other fossils are reported from Cretaceous, Palaeogene and Neogene sedimentary rocks and fossil resins (WEIGELT 1940, RIETSCHEL 1983, POINAR 1992, AZAR 2007, SCHMIDT et al 2010.…”