Short communication A new species of Burmissus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Mimarachnidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber Cihang Luo a, b , Tian Jiang c , Bo Wang b , Chuantao Xiao a, * a School of GeoSciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan, 430100, Hubei, China b State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China c China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China article info Article history: Received 1 November 2019 Received in revised form 14 December 2019 Accepted in revised form 5 February 2020 Available online 11 February 2020 Keywords: Planthoppers Kachin amber Mimarachnidae New species Burmissus szwedoi sp. nov abstract The eleventh species of Mimarachnidae and the second species of Burmissusis is herein described from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Burmissus szwedoi sp. nov. can be distinguished from the type species Burmissus raunoi Shcherbakov, 2017 by the number of carinae of the mesonotum, tegmen pattern and different broadest portion of the tegmen. Diagnostic features of the genus Burmissus are reviewed. The phylogeny of Mimarachnidae is discussed. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction The order Hemiptera contains the biggest number of families among any insects, with more than three hundred extant and extinct known families inhabiting all terrestrial and some marine habitats (Szwedo, 2018). Fulgoromorpha (Planthoppers) is a sub- order of the Hemiptera and subdivided into three superfamilies: two extinct superfamilies e Permian Coleoscytoidea Martynov, 1935, Permian and Triassic Surijokocixioidea Shcherbakov, 2000 e and another superfamily Fulgoroidea Latreille, 1807 , known in fossil records since the Jurassic (Szwedo, 2018). Up to now, various species of Fulgoromorpha have been described from mid- Cretaceous Burmese amber (Ross, 2019), including species from two extant planthoppers families: Achilidae Stål, 1866 and Cixiidae Spinola, 1839 (Cockerell, 1917; Szwedo, 2004; Brysz and Szwedo, 2018) and five extinct families: Dorytocidae Emeljanov et Shcher- bakov, 2018 (Emeljanov and Shcherbakov, 2018), Jubisentidae Zhang, Ren et Yao, 2019 (Zhang et al., 2019), Mimarachnidae Shcherbakov, 2007b (Shcherbakov, 2007b), Perforissidae Shcherbakov, 2007a (Shcherbakov, 2007a; Zhang et al., 2017), and Yetkhatidae Song, Szwedo et Bourgoin (2019) (Song et al., 2019). The extinct Fulgoromorpha family Mimarachnidae was placed in the group of ‘cixiidae-like’ planthoppers (Bourgoin and Szwedo, 2008; Szwedo and Ansorge, 2015), including 9 genera and 10 species at present (Bourgoin, 2019): Mimarachne mikhailovi Shcherbakov, 2007b and Saltissus eskovi Shcherbakov, 2007b from Early Cretaceous deposits (ca.145-125 Ma) in Baissa, Transbaikalia, Russia (Shcherbakov, 2007b); Nipponoridium matsuoi Fujiyama, 1978 from early Cretaceous (ca. 140-120 Ma) Kaseki-kabe locality in Kuwajima, Japan (Szwedo, 2008); Mimamontsecia cretacea Szwedo et Ansorge, 2015 and Chalicoridulum montsecensis Szwedo et Ansorge, 2015 from Sierra del Montsec (Szwedo and Ansorge, 2015), north-eastern Spain of early Barremian (ca. 130.0e125.5 Ma) age; Burmissus raunoi Shcherbakov, 2017 , Dachi- bangus trimaculatus Jiang, Szwedo et Wang, 2018, Jaculistilus oli- gotrichus Zhang, Ren et Yao, 2018, Dachibangus formosus Fu, Szwedo, Azar et Huang, 2019 and Mimaplax ekrypsan Jiang, Szwedo et Wang, 2019 from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Shcherbakov, 2017; Jiang et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2018; Fu et al., 2019; Jiang et al., 2019). Some undescribed specimens are also known from localities like Turga (central Siberia) of early Cretaceous, Khurilt (Mongolia) of Barremian or Aptian, Khetana (East Siberia) of middle Albian, and * Corresponding author. E-mail address: ctxiao@yangtzeu.edu.cn (C. Xiao). Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104417 0195-6671/© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Cretaceous Research 110 (2020) 104417