Ingensala xiai, Luo & Song & Liu & Jiang & Jarzembowski & Szwedo, 2022

Luo, Cihang, Song, Zhishun, Liu, Xiaojing, Jiang, Tian, Jarzembowski, Edmund A. & Szwedo, Jacek, 2022, Ingensalinae subfam. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea: Inoderbidae), a new planthopper subfamily from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 455-465 : 457

Ingensala xiai sp. nov.; by present designation and monotypy.

Etymology

The generic name is derived from the combination of two words from the Latin language: ingens’ meaning “huge, vast, enormous” and ala’ meaning “wing”, referring to the very large tegmen of the genus. Gender: feminine.

Included species

Type species only.

Diagnosis

Head with compound eyes about 2 / 3 times as wide as pronotum, vertex transverse, wider than long in mid line. Lateral margins of frons distinct, carinate, no median carina, lateral carinae of clypeus carinate. Mesonotum with postocular carinae. Tegmen twice about as long as wide, with distinct venation, costal area present, intersected with a few transverse veinlets; costal cell with two transverse veinlets, submarginal “pseudostigma” present near end of costa area; RA with two terminals, RP with four terminals, MP with three terminals, CuA with six terminals, Cell C 1 open, Cell C 3 shorter than cell C 5. Apical row of veinlets present, arcuate. Male genital styles fused medially.

Age and occurrence. Mid-Cretaceous (early Cenomanian); amber from Kachin State, northern Myanmar.