Paleolepidotus, Poinar & Vega & Schneider, 2020

Poinar, George, Vega, Fernando E. & Schneider, Scott A., 2020, A mid-Cretaceous female scale insect (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) in Burmese amber, Zootaxa 4810 (3), pp. 511-522 : 512

Genus: Paleolepidotus gen. n.

LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FF0C1AF7-EA04-4DA6-8FC9-3C73C61E8E40

Diagnosis: Body small and rectangular with long wax pencils arising around margin of entire body, including head; antennae long and 7-segmented, each with terminal antennomere knobbed at tip and with apical spine at apex; legs elongate, each sub-equal to body length; tarsi long and slender, each bearing single claw with bifid tip; one digitule present at inner base of claw; small plantar denticle situated near middle of claw; rostrum large, conical to triangular, 3-segmented, with tip slender and acute; ovisac present, containing developing immatures.

Type species: Paleolepidotus macrocolus gen. et sp. n.

Etymology: The generic name is derived from the Greek “ palaios ” meaning old, and the Greek “ lepidotos ” meaning scaly.

Comment: The genus is monotypic at present.