Valid Names Results

Apticoccus minutus Koteja & Azar, 2008 (Apticoccidae: Apticoccus)

Apticoccus minutus Koteja & Azar 2008: 156-158. Type data: LEBANON: Central Lebanon, Caza Baabda, Mouhafazat Jabal Loubnan, in Lebanese amber, Lower Creataceous, Medyrij\Hammana.. Holotype, male, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species was described from a single male included in Lower Creataceous Lebanese amber, collected at Central Lebanon, Caza Baabda, Mouhafazat Jabal Loubnan, Medyrij\Hammana. 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 , and A. longitenuis. 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). (Vea & Grimaldi, 2015)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult male by Koteja & Azar (2008).