Cockroach Stavba jarzembowskii sp. nov. (Blattaria: Liberiblattindae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Abstract The family Liberiblattinidae is a small but phylogenetically most important group of Blattaria (cockroaches), comprising 17 Mesozoic genera and 20 species. The genus Stavba Vrsanska et Vrsanský in Vrsanský et al. (2019c) of this family consists of two known species. Stavba jarzembowskii sp. nov. is described and figured based on an exceptionally preserved male individual in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. It is distinguished from other two species by more round eyes, narrower body, broader wings with broader costal area and less crossveins in the radial sector and medial field and relatively uncurved A veins. Our new find further adds the diversity within this genus and of the cockroaches in 99 million years old tropical forests of Burmese amber.