Perspicuus csincsii Szabó et al. 2024 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: M. Szabó, H. Sendi, and A. 2024. A new species of the vitismin cockroach genus Perspicuus Koubová, 2020 from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Hungary. Zootaxa 5437:105-114

Belongs to Perspicuus according to M. Szabó et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Perspicuus pilosus, Perspicuus vrsanskyi

Type specimen: NHMUS PAL 2023.43.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Ajka amber (NHMUS/MTM collection), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in Hungary.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Ajka amber (NHMUS/MTM collection)

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