Apticoccus minutus, Koteja and Azar, 2008

Vea, Isabelle M. & Grimaldi, David A., 2015, Diverse new scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in amber from the Cretaceous and Eocene with a phylogenetic framework for fossil Coccoidea, American Museum Novitates 2015 (3823), pp. 1-80 : 35

Apticoccus minutus, Koteja and Azar, 2008

HOLOTYPE: HAM-54A (Cocc-0847) alate male; Dany Azar amber collection, provisionally deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.

NEW MATERIAL: Specimen 628 (Cocc-1720), alate male in a 3 × 2 × 0.5 mm amber piece embedded in Canada balsam and mounted in epoxy between two coverslips; specimen is in imperfect condition but ventral surface of head is visible, dorsal part covered with a layer of bubbles, antennae well preserved, wings truncate. In the Dany Azar amber collection, provisionally deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.

COMMENTS: Specimen 628 (Cocc-1720) was identified to Apticoccus minutus because of the thin and elongate thorax and abdomen, as well as thinner claws, as opposed to A. fortis , n. sp., and A. longitenuis , n. sp. From a further study of the holotype and the addition of new fossil material, the following changes from the original description in Koteja and Azar (2008) are provided: antennae 10-segmented (vs. 9-segmented in Koteja and Azar, 2008; the antennal segments are damaged on the holotype, but segmentation is better preserved on specimen 628), and each hamulohaltere with two hamuli (vs. “Haltere spindle-shaped, 70 μm long, 20 μm wide, with one seta,” Koteja and Azar, 2008; observation of both holotype and specimen 628 shows two hamuli).