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This list of 2025 in paleoentomology records new fossil insect taxa that are to be described during the year, as well as documents significant paleoentomology discoveries and events which occurred during that year.

Clade Amphiesmenoptera

Lepidopterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Eolimenitis [1]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Fischer & Hausmann	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	Taxon established for fossil forms of the subfamily Limenitidinae within the family Nymphalidae. Includes E. baltica, described on the basis of an egg inclusion in amber.

Trichopterans

Trichopteran research

• Shcherbakov (2025) reinterprets purported thysanuran Planocephalus aselloides from the Eocene Florissant Formation (Colorado, United States) as a hydropsychid caddisfly and a senior synonym of Hydropsyche scudderi. ^[2]

Clade Antliophora

Dipterans

Brachycerans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Eodromyia rovnoensis [3]	Sp. nov	Valid	Shamshev in Shamshev, Perkovsky & Legalov	Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A member of the family Hybotidae belonging to the subfamily Tachydromiinae.
Eoplatypalpus [4]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Shamshev, Vasilenko & Perkovsky	Eocene	Sakhalin amber	Russia (  Sakhalin Oblast)	A member of the family Hybotidae. The type species is E. sachalinensis.
Guamaimengia [5]	Gen. et sp. nov		Zhang, Zhang & Zhang	Early Cretaceous	Laiyang Formation	China	A member of the family Eremochaetidae. The type species is G. laiyangensis.
Spilomyia kvaceki [6]	Sp. nov		Daňková et al.	Oligocene		Czech Republic	A species of Spilomyia .

Nematocerans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Bryophaenocladius zealandiae [7]	Sp. nov	Valid	Baranov in Baranov et al.	Oligocene (Chattian)	Pomahaka Formation	New Zealand	A species of Bryophaenocladius .
Ellipteroides (Jantares) hansi [8]	Sp. nov	Valid	Kania-Kłosok et al.	Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe (Baltic Sea region)	A species of Ellipteroides .
Penthetria tenue [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A species of Penthetria .
Penthetria tipuloides [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A species of Penthetria.
Protopenthetria bicoloripes [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria coronata [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria crassitarsalis [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria globistylus [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria longicornis [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria pallipes [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Protopenthetria rectangula [9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Skartveit et al.	Cretaceous		Myanmar	A member of the family Bibionidae.
Pterosis extinctus [7]	Sp. nov	Valid	Baranov in Baranov et al.	Oligocene (Chattian)	Pomahaka Formation	New Zealand	A member of the family Chironomidae.
Rhabdomastix rafali [10]	Sp. nov	Valid	Jordan-Stasiło, Kania-Kłosok & Krzemiński	Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe (Baltic Sea region)	A species of Rhabdomastix .
Rhabdomastix setosa [10]	Sp. nov	Valid	Jordan-Stasiło, Kania-Kłosok & Krzemiński	Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe (Baltic Sea region)	A species of Rhabdomastix.
Rhabdomastix woottoni [10]	Sp. nov	Valid	Jordan-Stasiło, Kania-Kłosok & Krzemiński	Eocene	Cottbus Formation (Bitterfeld amber)	Germany	A species of Rhabdomastix.

Mecopterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Ctenobittacus [11]	Nom. nov	Valid	Villet	Middle Triassic	Tongchuan Formation	China	A hangingfly; a replacement name for Ctenophlebia Hong (2009).
Petrulebittacus [12]	Gen. et sp. nov		Machado, Bueno & Ribeiro	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation	Brazil	A hangingfly. The type species is P. martinsnetoi.

Mecopteran research

• Probable permochoristid forewing, representing the first Triassic insect from Antarctica reported to date, is described from the Section Peak Formation in Victoria Land by Lara et al. (2025). ^[13]

Clade Archaeorthoptera

Orthopterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Adelphellca [14]	Gen. et sp. et comb. nov	Valid	Schall, Kotthoff & Husemann	Cretaceous	Hkamti amber or Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Elcanidae. The type species is A. simplicissima; genus also includes "Probaisselcana" zhengi Gu et al. (2022).
Kolymbelcana [14]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Schall, Kotthoff & Husemann	Cretaceous	Hkamti amber or Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Elcanidae. The type species is K. phantasma.
Protomogoplistes inflatus [15]	Sp. nov		Ji et al.	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Mogoplistidae.

Clade Coleopterida

Coleopterans

Adephaga

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Calosoma winnicaensis [16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Nel et al.	Oligocene	Menilite Formation	Poland	A species of Calosoma .
Copelatus chiapas [17]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hájek et al.	Miocene	Mexican amber	Mexico	A species of Copelatus .

Polyphaga

Bostrichiformia

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Attagenus motykai [18]	Sp. nov	Valid	Háva	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A species of Attagenus .
Burmostrichus [19]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Háva & Zahradník	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Bostrichidae. The type species is B. brunneus.
Granulobium perkovskyi [20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Legalov in Legalov & Legalov	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Ptinidae belonging to the subfamily Eucradinae and the tribe Hedobiini.
Toxesbium [21]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Li, Philips & Cai in Li et al.	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Ptinidae belonging to the subfamily Ernobiinae. The type species is T. kundratai.

Cucujiformia

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Anomalocys [22]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Legalov & Perkovsky in Legalov, Vasilenko & Perkovsky	Eocene	Danish amber	Denmark	A member of the family Ciidae. The type species is A. lawrencei.
Cretostenotarsus elongatus [23]	Sp. nov		Hsiao & Tomaszewska	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Endomychidae.
Derinilipia [24]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Li, Huang & Cai	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Ripiphoridae belonging to the subfamily Ripidiinae and the tribe Ripidiini. The type species is D. alekseevi.
Olmia [25]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Legalov & Perkovsky in Legalov, Vasilenko & Perkovsky	Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A member of the family Mycetophagidae. The type species is O. drevlyanica.
Plesiogethes [26]	Gen. et sp. nov		Zaitsev, Vasilenko & Perkovsky	Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A sap beetle. Genus includes new species P. mali.
Vetunitidula [27]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Zhao et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A sap beetle. The type species is V. mandibulata.

Elateriformia

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Cretadystaxia [28]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Legalov	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Schizopodidae. The type species is C. burmanica.
Dostaliella [29]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Motyka, Kusy & Bocak	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Lycidae belonging to the subfamily Erotinae. The type species is D. filiformis.
Electromethes kazantsevi [30]	Comb. nov	Valid	(Alekseev)	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A member of the family Omethidae; moved from Photinus kazantsevi Alekseev (2019).
Groehnionycha [31]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Fanti	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A soldier beetle belonging to the subfamily Cantharinae and the tribe Cantharini. The type species is G. yantarnyca.
Hiekeolycus winkleri [32]	Sp. nov	Valid	Kazantsev & Yamamoto in Bocak et al.	Eocene (Priabonian)	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A member of the family Lycidae belonging to the subfamily Erotinae and the tribe Dictyopterini. Published online in 2023, [33] validated in 2025.
Malthodes camerinii [31]	Sp. nov	Valid	Fanti	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A soldier beetle, a species of Malthodes .
Phaenops gutowskii [34]	Sp. nov	Valid	Kwast & Alekseev	Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe (Baltic Sea region)	A species of Phaenops .
Podistra carstengroehni [31]	Sp. nov	Valid	Fanti	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A soldier beetle, a species of Podistra .
Sucinorhagonycha pugachensis [35]	Sp. nov	Valid	Kazantsev & Perkovsky in Kazantsev, Legalov & Perkovsky	Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A soldier beetle.

Staphyliniformia

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Yethiha lackneri [36]	Sp. nov	Valid	Simon-Pražák, Háva & Prokop	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Histeridae.

Other Polyphaga

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Benemerita [37]	Gen. et sp. nov	Disputed	Molino-Olmedo	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	Originally described as a member of the family Ptinidae belonging to the subfamily Dryophilinae; subsequently argued by Legalov & Legalov (2025) to be a member of the family Cerophytidae and a junior synonym of Amberophytum . [20] The type species is B. burmitica. Published online in 2025, but the issue date is listed as December 2024.

Coleopteran research

• Bao et al. (2025) redescribe Tigrivia baii . ^[38]
• Sánchez et al. (2025) argue that purported brood balls of dung beetles from the Eocene La Meseta Formation (Antarctica) are not true trace fossils, and consider Patagonian trace fossils of Coprinisphaera to represent the southermost known record of this ichnotaxon. ^[39]
• Click beetle larvae belonging to the subfamily Pityobiinae and likely to the tribe Tibionemini are identified in the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Kachin amber from Myanmar by Kundrata et al. (2025). ^[40]

Clade Dictyoptera

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Compostus [41]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Vršanský	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Liberiblattinidae. The type species is C. supremus.
Elisama kacerovae [42]	Sp. nov	Valid	Sendi	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Blattulidae.
Etomylacris straeleni [43]	Sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Moscovian)	Benxi Formation	China	A roachoid stem-dictyopteran belonging to the family Mylacridae.
Pseudaphtoromylacris [43]	Fam. et gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Moscovian)	Benxi Formation	China	A roachoid stem-dictyopteran, the type genus of the new family Pseudaphtoromylacridae. The type species is P. paucinervis.
Pycnoblattina valeriea [44]	Sp. nov		Garrouste, Boderau & Nel	Permian (Wordian)		France	A roachoid belonging to the family Spiloblattinidae.
Samaroblattella valmarensis [45]	Sp. nov	Valid	Montagna et al.	Middle Triassic (Ladinian)	Meride Limestone	Switzerland	A roachoid belonging to the family Subioblattidae.
Sooblattella ater [43]	Sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Moscovian)	Benxi Formation	China	A roachoid stem-dictyopteran belonging to the family Mylacridae.
Spilarchimylacris kaipingense [43]	Sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Moscovian)	Benxi Formation	China	A roachoid stem-dictyopteran belonging to the family Archimylacridae.
Tangshanblatta [43]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Moscovian)	Benxi Formation	China	A roachoid stem-dictyopteran belonging to the family Phyloblattidae. The type species is T. inexpectata.

Dictyopteran research

• Evidence from the study of a specimen of Ambermantis wozniaki from the Turonian Raritan Formation (New Jersey, United States, interpreted as indicating that the studied mantis had large eyes with a high-resolution vision and a broad binocular visual field, is presented by Taniguchi et al. (2025). ^[46]

Hymenopterans

Symphyta

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Cretovelona [47]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Vilhelmsen, Nakamine & Yamamoto in Vilhelmsen et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of Orussoidea. The type species is C. orussopteryx.
Deresyntexis [48]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Oyama, Jouault & Mita	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Anaxyelidae. The type species is D. bethouxi.
Madygella fujiyama [49]	Sp. nov	Valid	Oyama et al.	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Momonoki Formation	Japan	A member of the family Xyelidae.
Ominexyela [49]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Oyama et al.	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Momonoki Formation	Japan	A member of the family Xyelidae. The type species is O. ishidai.
Samarkandykia haradai [49]	Sp. nov	Valid	Oyama et al.	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Momonoki Formation	Japan	A member of the family Xyelidae.
Samarkandykia noharai [49]	Sp. nov	Valid	Oyama et al.	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Momonoki Formation	Japan	A member of the family Xyelidae.

Apocrita

Apoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Leioproctus (Otagocolletes) barrydonovani [50]	Sp. nov	Valid	Engel & Kaulfuss	Miocene (Langhian)	Hindon Maar Lagerstätte	New Zealand	A species of Leioproctus .
Panurgus (Chronopanurgus) tribacus [51]	Sp. nov	Valid	Engel	Miocene	Öhningen site	Germany	A species of Panurgus .
Promeliphron [52]	Gen. et comb. nov	Valid	Engel	Eocene	Baltic amber	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A melikertine bee. The type species is "Succinapis" micheneri Engel (2001).

Ceraphronoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Crucimaimetsha [53]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Li, Kopylov & Rasnitsyn in Li et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Maimetshidae. The type species is C. nigra.
Guyotemaimetsha ortegablancoi [53]	Sp. nov	Valid	Li, Kopylov & Rasnitsyn in Li et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Maimetshidae.
Guyotemaimetsha perrichoti [53]	Sp. nov	Valid	Li, Kopylov & Rasnitsyn in Li et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Maimetshidae.
Maimetshasia engeli [53]	Sp. nov	Valid	Li, Kopylov & Rasnitsyn in Li et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Maimetshidae.
Maimetshasia nova [53]	Sp. nov	Valid	Li, Kopylov & Rasnitsyn in Li et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Maimetshidae.

Chalcidoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Waninka [54]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Simutnik in Simutnik, Pankowski & Perkovsky	Probably Eocene		Germany	A member of the family Encyrtidae. The type species is W. haikowielandi.

Chrysidoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Sirenobethylus [55]	Fam. et gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Wu, Vilhelmsen & Gao in Wu et al.	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	The type genus of the new family Sirenobethylidae. The type species is S. charybdis.

Diaprioidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Trichopria electrosinica [56]	Sp. nov	Valid	Brazidec & Perrichot	Miocene	Fotan Group (Zhangpu amber)	China	A member of the family Diapriidae.

Formicoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Gerontoformica priapos [57]	Sp. nov	Valid	Zhuang, Boudinot & Perrichot in Zhuang et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	An ant belonging to the subfamily Sphecomyrminae.

Ichneumonoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Aulosaphes fumipennis [58]	Sp. nov	Valid	Belokobylskij in Belokobylskij & Manukyan	Eocene	Prussian Formation (Baltic amber)	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A species of Aulosaphes .
Prochremylus museumoceanus [58]	Sp. nov	Valid	Belokobylskij in Belokobylskij & Manukyan	Eocene	Prussian Formation (Baltic amber)	Russia (  Kaliningrad Oblast)	A member of the family Braconidae belonging to the tribe Chremylini.

Megalyroidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Megacoxa brazideci [59]	Sp. nov	Valid	Vilhelmsen et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Megalyridae.
Megacoxa gungner [59]	Sp. nov	Valid	Vilhelmsen et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Megalyridae.
Megacoxa mjoelner [59]	Sp. nov	Valid	Vilhelmsen et al.	Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Megalyridae.

Pompiloidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Gubuzhu [60]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Xu & Waichert in Xu et al.	Eocene (Bartonian)	Niubao Formation	China	A spider wasp. The type species is G. orientalis.
Paleoferreolina [60]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Xu & Waichert in Xu et al.	Eocene (Bartonian)	Niubao Formation	China	A spider wasp. The type species is P. xiedensis.

Vespoidea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Siccibythus aristovi [61]	Sp. nov	Valid	Wang, Rasnitsyn, Perkovsky & Vilhelmsen in Wang et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Falsiformicidae.
Siccibythus robustus [61]	Sp. nov	Valid	Wang, Rasnitsyn, Perkovsky & Vilhelmsen in Wang et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Falsiformicidae.

Hymenopteran research

• A study on the diversification of hymenopterans throughout their evolutionary history, based on data from the fossil record, is published by Jouault et al. (2025). ^[62]

Clade Neuropterida

Neuropterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Blittersdorffia evanescens [63]	Sp. nov	Valid	Bueno et al.	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation	Brazil	An antlion.
Danomantispa [64]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Makarkin, Perkovsky & Nielsen	Eocene	Fur Formation	Denmark	A member of the family Mantispidae belonging to the subfamily Drepanicinae. The type species is D. frandseni.
Diegopteryx cearensis [63]	Sp. nov	Valid	Bueno et al.	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation	Brazil	An antlion.
Diegopteryx pulcherrima [63]	Comb. nov	Valid	(Martins-Neto & Vulcano)	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation	Brazil	An antlion. Moved from Blittersdorffia pulcherrima Martins-Neto & Vulcano (1997); senior synonym of Diegopteryx raptoria Martins-Neto & Rodrigues (2010).
Diegopteryx rafaeli [63]	Sp. nov	Valid	Bueno et al.	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation	Brazil	An antlion.
Fiaponeura maculipennis [65]	Sp. nov	Valid	Assmar et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of Psychopsoidea of uncertain affinities.
Phyllithone [66]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Liu et al.	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Ithonidae. The type species is P. dongshengi.
Stygioberotha groehni [67]	Sp. nov	Valid	Makarkin	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the subfamily Paraberothinae.

Neuropteran research

• Evidence from the study of larvae preserved in the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, interpreted as indicative of greater morphological diversity of nymphid larvae compared to the present, is presented by Buchner et al. (2025). ^[68]

Clade †Palaeodictyopteroidea

†Megasecoptera

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Aspidothorax hispanicus [69]	Sp. nov	Valid	Santos et al.	Carboniferous (Gzhelian)		Spain	A member of the family Aspidothoracidae.

Clade Palaeoptera

Ephemeropterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Burmella inconspicua [70]	Sp. nov	Valid	Godunko & Staniczek in Godunko et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A vietnamellid mayfly.
Burmella zhouchangfai [70]	Comb. nov	Valid	(Chen & Zheng)	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A vietnamellid mayfly; moved from Burmaheptagenia zhouchangfai Chen & Zheng (2023).

Odonatopterans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Abrohemeroscopus yuanjiawaensis [71]	Sp. nov		Fang, Liu & Zheng	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation	China	A hemeroscopid dragonfly.
Koreapodagrion [72]	Gen. et sp. nov		Nel, Nam & Jouault	Early Cretaceous (Albian)	Jinju Formation	South Korea	A "megapodagrionid" damselfly. The type species is K. coloratus.
Lestes polonicus [16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Nel et al.	Oligocene	Menilite Formation	Poland	A species of Lestes .
Stenolestes oeningenensis [73]	Sp. nov		Boderau et al.	Miocene	Öhningen site	Germany	A sieblosiid damselfly.

Odonatopteran research

• Boderau et al. (2025) describe new fossil material of Saxonagrion minutum from the Permian Salagou Formation (France), and interpret is morphology as supporting the placement of the family Saxonagrionidae within Panodonata. ^[74]

Clade †Paoliidea

†Paoliida

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Permotermopsis gallica [75]	Sp. nov		Boderau et al.	Permian (late Kungurian)	Salagou Formation	France	A member of the family Paoliidae.

Clade Paraneoptera

Hemipterans

Auchenorrhyncha

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Trichotomus [76]	Gen. et 2 sp. nov	Valid	Wang, Zhuo, Luo & Chen in Wang et al.	Cretaceous	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A planthopper belonging to the family Mimarachnidae. The type species is T. zhuoyuanshengi; genus also includes T. zhuowenxii.

Heteroptera

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Iwakia [77]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Aiba, Souma & Inose	Late Cretaceous (Coniacian)	Tamayama Formation (Iwaki amber)	Japan	A possible member of the family Microphysidae. The type species is I. longilabiata.
Maculocris [78]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Dai, Yao & Ren in Dai et al.	Early Cretaceous (Aptian)	Yixian Formation	China	A member of Pentatomomorpha belonging to the family Kobdocoridae. The type species is M. yixiani.
Prosthoblissus [79]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Boderau, Nel & Engel	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of the family Blissidae. The type species is P. primigenius.

Sternorrhyncha

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Amecephala micra [80]	Sp. nov	Valid	Drohojowska et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A member of Psyllodea belonging to the family Liadopsyllidae.
Karaovisiphum [81]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Węgierek in Węgierek et al.	Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)	Karabastau Formation	Kazakhstan	An aphid belonging to the family Oviparosiphidae. The type species is K. inventum.

Hemipteran research

• A study on the past diversity dynamics of hemipterans is published by Boderau, Nel & Jouault (2025). ^[82]

Psocodea

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Archipsocus palaeosinicus [83]	Sp. nov		Jouault & Zhuang	Miocene	Zhangpu amber	China	A species of Archipsocus .
Psyllipsocus mili [84]	Sp. nov	Valid	Weingardt, Liang & Yoshizawa in Weingardt et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kachin amber	Myanmar	A species of Psyllipsocus .

Psocodean research

• Cai et al. (2025) report the discovery of the oldest louse eggs known to date, found on feathers of a bird belonging to the group Enantiornithes preserved in the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar. ^[85]

Thysanoptera

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Tethysthrips attenboroughi [86]	Sp. nov	Valid	Peñalver, Peña-Kairath, Nel & Nel in Peñalver et al.	Early Cretaceous (Albian)	Utrillas Group	Spain	A member of the family Thripidae.

General research

• Evidence from the study of fossil record damage of plants caused by insects, indicating that modern patterns of insect herbivory originated by late Middle Jurassic (60 million years before the beginning of angiosperm dominance in plant assemblages), is presented by Xiao et al. (2025). ^[87]

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