A new whitefly (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar

Whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) are tiny hemipteran insects with specialized ontogeny and morphology. A new extinct taxon, Paraburmoselis kachinensis gen. et sp. nov., is erected herein based upon a fossil whitefly trapped in the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from northern Myanmar. Paraburmoselis gen. nov., as the fourth genus of the Mesozoic subfamily Bernaeinae, can be distinguished from its con-subfamilials by possessing a series of unique features:...