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This paleoentomology list records new fossil insect taxa that were announced or described during the year 2026, as well as notes other significant paleoentomology discoveries and events which occurred during the year.
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Sukatsheva in Sukatsheva, Rasnitsyn & Vasilenko | Early Jurassic | A member of the family Philopotamidae. Published online in 2026, but the issue date is listed as December 2025. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Grimaldi, Lonsdale & Herhold | Miocene | Dominican amber | A member of the family Sepsidae. The type species is C. caribea. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Skartveit | Cretaceous | A member of the family Bibionidae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Skartveit | Cretaceous | A member of the family Bibionidae. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Schall et al. | Early Cretaceous | Crato Formation | A member of the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species A. intermedia. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Schall et al. | Early Cretaceous | Crato Formation | A member of the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species E. brachyptera. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Schall et al. | Early Cretaceous | Crato Formation | A member of the family Elcanidae. Genus includes new species G. brasiliensis. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Schall & Husemann | Cretaceous | Hkamti amber or Kachin amber | A member of the family Elcanidae. | |||
Gen. et comb. nov | Schall et al. | Early Cretaceous | Crato Formation | A member of the family Elcanidae; a new genus for "Cratoelcana" rasnitsyni Nel & Jouault. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Schall, Bonino & Husemann | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A member of Eumastacoidea. Genus includes new species M. disantoi. | ||||
Comb. nov | (Martins-Neto) | Early Cretaceous | A member of the family Elcanidae; moved from Cratoelcana damianii Martins-Neto (1991). | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Schall & Husemann | Cretaceous | Hkamti amber or Kachin amber | A member of the family Elcanidae. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Schall, Kotthoff & Husemann | Cretaceous | Hkamti amber or Kachin amber | A member of the family Elcanidae. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Xu et al. | Middle Jurassic | A member of the family Baissogryllidae. First online in 2025, officially published in 2026. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Schall, Kotthoff & Husemann | Cretaceous | Hkamti amber or Kachin amber | A member of the family Elcanidae. The type species is T. atawedeia. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Molino-Olmedo | Cretaceous | A ground beetle belonging to the subfamily Scaritinae and the tribe Dyschiriini. The type species is A. misiae. Published online in 2026, but the issue date is listed as December 2025. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Lee, Nel & Nam | Early Cretaceous (Albian) | A member of the family Coptoclavidae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Xia et al. | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A tiger beetle. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Zhao, Engel & Cai in Zhao et al. | Cretaceous | A member of the family Kateretidae. | |||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Gerke, Yamamoto & Żyła | Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A rove beetle belonging to the subfamily Paederinae. The type species is C. fangornis. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Lara & Cariglino | Permian (Cisuralian) | A member of the family Phyloblattidae. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Sendi et al. | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A cockroach belonging to the family Corydiidae. Genus includes new species C. elegans. | ||||
Gen. et 2 sp. nov | Sendi et al. | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A cockroach belonging to the family Corydiidae. Genus includes new species P. sylvana and P. horvathovae. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Jouault, Huang & Azevedo | Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of the family Bethylidae belonging to the subfamily Epyrinae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Jouault, Huang & Azevedo | Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of the family Bethylidae belonging to the subfamily Lancepyrinae. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Ge & Tan in Ge, Ren & Tan | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A member of the family Gasteruptiidae. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ge & Tan in Ge, Ren & Tan | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A member of the family Gasteruptiidae. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Fiorentino et al. | Miocene | Dominican amber | A species of Hypoponera . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Aiba & Inose | Miocene | A member of the subfamily Myrmicinae and the tribe Stenammini. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Varela-Hernández & Guerrero | Oligocene-Miocene | An ant belonging to the subfamily Ponerinae. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Manukyan, Dubovikoff & Smirnova | Eocene | Baltic amber | Europe (Baltic Sea region) | A species of Xanthopimpla . Published online in 2026, but the issue date is listed as December 2025. | ||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp. nov | Valid | Zheng in Wang et al. | Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of the family Myanmarinidae. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Zheng in Wang et al. | Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of the family Myanmarinidae. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Jia, Zhang & Zhang | Middle Jurassic | A member of the family Ephialtitidae. Genus includes new species S. ningchengensis. | |||||
Sp. nov | Jia, Zhang & Zhang | Middle Jurassic | Daohugou Beds | A member of the family Ephialtitidae. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Jouault, Liu & Perrichot | Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | A member of the family Mantispidae belonging to the subfamily Symphrasinae. The type species is C. zhengi. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Engel & Peretti | Cretaceous | Hkamti amber | A member of the family Sisyridae. Genus includes new species C. elegans. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Kong et al. | Jurassic | A larval representative of the lacewing superfamily Osmyloidea. The type species is Q. scleroticum. | ||||
Nom. nov | Valid | Kong et al. | Jurassic | A member of the lacewing superfamily Osmyloidea; a replacement name for Natator Kong et al. (2024). | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fam. et gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Chen & Zheng | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A mayfly, the type genus of the new family Venusdemiloidae. The type species is V. venusae. Published online in 2026, but the issue date is listed as December 2025. | |||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et comb. nov | Zhang, Ning & Zhang in Zhang et al. | Late Triassic | A member of Cicadomorpha belonging to the family Dysmorphoptilidae. The type species is "Prosbolopsites" granulatus Hong & Chang (1993). | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Lara & Cariglino | Late Triassic | A member of the family Dysmorphoptilidae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Lara & Cariglino | Late Triassic | Potrerillos Formation | A member of the family Dysmorphoptilidae. | |||
Fam. et gen. et sp. nov | Chen et al. | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A member of Cicadomorpha belonging to the superfamily Cercopoidea, the type genus of the new family Myanmalidae. Genus includes new species M. zireni. | ||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Zhang, Yao & Liu in Zhang et al. | Cretaceous | A member of the family Pachynomidae. The type species is C. conservatus. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Dai et al. | Middle Jurassic | A member of Pachymeridiidae. The type species is D. punctatus. | |||||
Sp. nov | Ma, Ren & Yao | Cretaceous | A member of the family Nabidae. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Dai et al. | Middle Jurassic | A member of Pachymeridiidae. The type species is S. actuarius. | |||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Chen | Eocene | Baltic amber | Europe (Baltic Sea region) | A member of the family Nemouridae. Genus includes new species H. triloba. Published online in 2026, but the issue date is listed as December 2025. | ||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Kočárek, Kočárková & Kundrata | Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of Zoraptera belonging to the family Zorotypidae; a new genus for "Zorotypus" denticulatus Yin, Cai & Huang (2018). | |||
Sp. nov | Hu, Zheng & Zhang in Hu et al. | Early Triassic | A winged relative of ice crawlers belonging to the family Chaulioditidae. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Liu et al. | Late Cretaceous | A member of Embioptera belonging to the family Scelembiidae. Genus includes new species C. longimandibula. | ||||
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Kočárek, Kočárková & Kundrata | Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | Kachin amber | A member of Zoraptera belonging to the family Spiralizoridae. The type species is "Zorotypus" acanthothorax Engel & Grimaldi (2002); genus also includes "Zorotypus" pusillus Chen & Su (2019). | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Liu et al. | Late Cretaceous | A member of Embioptera belonging to the family Clothodidae. Genus includes new species E. aroliata. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Liu et al. | Late Cretaceous | A member of Embioptera belonging to the family Scelembiidae. | ||||