Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.12
Manuel Brazidec
Although infrequent in the fossil record, the extinct wasp family Spathiopterygidae have been suggested to be diverse and globally distributed during the Cretaceous, being documented in seven major amber deposits. In the present study, I describe and figure Argemiones stupeflip gen. et sp. nov. from the rich early Cenomanian Kachin amber (Myanmar). The new monotypic genus is characterized by the compound eyes with numerous ommatidia, the first four flagellomeres distinctly thinner and longer than followings, a distinctive fore wing venation, a fringe of long setae along the apical margin of fore wing, a much reduced but present hind wing, and a conspicuous petiolate first metasomal segment. The presence of Spathiopterygidae in the endemic fauna of the Burma Terrane suggests their antiquity, with a possible origin in the Upper Jurassic to the earliest Cretaceous, and dispersion between the Gondwana and the Southern and Western Laurasia during the Lower Cretaceous. I propose an updated version of the key to genera and species of the family.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.10
S. Heads, M. Thomas, Tyler J. Hedlund, Yinan Wang
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids) are abundant and diverse in the lower–middle Eocene Green River Formation of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado, though remain almost entirely unstudied. Here, we describe a new species of the katydid genus Arethaea Stål (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Insarini) from the Parachute Creek Member at a locality near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. Arethaea solterae Heads, Thomas & Hedlund sp. nov. is the first fossil member of the genus and the first tettigoniid described from the Green River Formation. The holotype and only known specimen is remarkable for the exceptional preservation of internal organs including the anterior midgut (ventriculus) and what appear to be a testis, accessory glands, and possible fat body.
{"title":"A new fossil katydid of the genus Arethaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with exceptionally preserved internal organs from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado","authors":"S. Heads, M. Thomas, Tyler J. Hedlund, Yinan Wang","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids) are abundant and diverse in the lower–middle Eocene Green River Formation of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado, though remain almost entirely unstudied. Here, we describe a new species of the katydid genus Arethaea Stål (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Insarini) from the Parachute Creek Member at a locality near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. Arethaea solterae Heads, Thomas & Hedlund sp. nov. is the first fossil member of the genus and the first tettigoniid described from the Green River Formation. The holotype and only known specimen is remarkable for the exceptional preservation of internal organs including the anterior midgut (ventriculus) and what appear to be a testis, accessory glands, and possible fat body.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46613406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.9
R. Jattiot, Vincent Trincal, R. Garrouste, A. Nel
The naucorid Ilyocoris andancensis sp. nov., first Miocene representative of its genus, is described on the basis of three compressed mummies found in the maar diatom paleolake of ‘La Montagne d’Andance’ (Ardèche, France). This new species differs from other extant and fossil representatives of the genus by the pattern of coloration of the abdomen and pronotum. The systematic positions of the other fossil taxa previously considered as Naucoridae are discussed.
根据在法国ard区La Montagne d ' andance古硅藻湖发现的三具压缩木乃伊，描述了该属中新世的第一个代表——nucorid Ilyocoris andancensis sp. nov.。这个新种不同于其他现存的和化石代表的腹部和前额的颜色模式。讨论了以前被认为是原核科的其他化石分类群的系统位置。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.7
Ramanuj Patel, R. Rana, A. Nel, Ashif Ali
The aquatic bug family Aphelocheiridae currently comprises only the extant genus Aphelocheirus Westwood, 1833, with two subgenera, the nominal one and Micraphelocheirus Hoberlandt & Štys, 1979. The genus is widely distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa, but seems to be absent from the New World (Schuh & Weirauch, 2020). These small predatory insects live at the bottom of lakes and ponds, and breath thanks to highly specialized abdominal respiratory ‘rosettes’ characteristic of this family (Thorpe & Crisp, 1947a, b; Schuh & Slater, 1995). The closely related Naucoridae have to breathe at the surface of the water. Ye et al., 2020: fig. 4) proposed a late Triassic age for the Naucoroidea and separation between the Naucoridae and the Aphelocheiridae, but Wang et al. (2021: fig. 4) proposed that the (Potamocoridae + Aphelocheiridae) separated from the Naucoridae during the Jurassic and that the Aphelocheiridae could be early Cretaceous. The accurate aphelocheirid fossil record is very scarce, with the oldest known representative from the Eocene (Bartonian) of Germany (Moraweck et al., 2015); and a second fossil from the Pliocene of Germany (Popov, 2007; Kunzmann et al., 2017).
水生昆虫科Aphelocheiridae目前只包括现存的Aphelocheyrus Westwood属，1833年，有两个亚属，标称亚属和Micraphlocheirus Hoberlandt&Štys，1979年。该属广泛分布于欧洲、亚洲和非洲，但在新大陆似乎没有（Schuh&Weirauch，2020）。这些小型捕食性昆虫生活在湖泊和池塘的底部，由于该科高度专业化的腹部呼吸“玫瑰花结”特征，它们会呼吸（Thorpe&Crisp，1947a，b；Schuh&Slater，1995年）。亲缘关系密切的Naucoridae不得不在水面上呼吸。Ye等人，2020：图4）提出了Naucoroidea的三叠纪晚期，以及Naucoridae和Aphelocheiridae之间的分离，但Wang等人（2021：图4。准确的Aphelocheird化石记录非常稀少，已知最古老的代表来自德国始新世（Bartonian）（Moraweck et al.，2015）；第二个化石来自德国上新世（Popov，2007；Kunzmann等人，2017）。
{"title":"The oldest aquatic aphelocheirid bug (Heteroptera, Nepomorpha) from the lower Eocene of India","authors":"Ramanuj Patel, R. Rana, A. Nel, Ashif Ali","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"The aquatic bug family Aphelocheiridae currently comprises only the extant genus Aphelocheirus Westwood, 1833, with two subgenera, the nominal one and Micraphelocheirus Hoberlandt & Štys, 1979. The genus is widely distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa, but seems to be absent from the New World (Schuh & Weirauch, 2020). These small predatory insects live at the bottom of lakes and ponds, and breath thanks to highly specialized abdominal respiratory ‘rosettes’ characteristic of this family (Thorpe & Crisp, 1947a, b; Schuh & Slater, 1995). The closely related Naucoridae have to breathe at the surface of the water. Ye et al., 2020: fig. 4) proposed a late Triassic age for the Naucoroidea and separation between the Naucoridae and the Aphelocheiridae, but Wang et al. (2021: fig. 4) proposed that the (Potamocoridae + Aphelocheiridae) separated from the Naucoridae during the Jurassic and that the Aphelocheiridae could be early Cretaceous. The accurate aphelocheirid fossil record is very scarce, with the oldest known representative from the Eocene (Bartonian) of Germany (Moraweck et al., 2015); and a second fossil from the Pliocene of Germany (Popov, 2007; Kunzmann et al., 2017).","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42034857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.8
A. Bashkuev, E. Jarzembowski
Eomeropidae is a relict family of Mecoptera with the sole living species, Notiothauma reedi McLachlan, 1877, inhabiting western parts of southern Chilean Valdivian forests. The family was more widely distributed in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, being known from 13 fossil species ranging in age from Early Jurassic to Oligocene (Soszyńska-Maj et al., 2016; Archibald & Rasnitsyn, 2018; Zhao et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2022). The oldest fossil eomeropid, Jurachorista bashkuevi Soszyńska-Maj, Krzemiński, Kopeć & Coram, 2016, was described from the Lower Jurassic Charmouth Mudstone Formation of Dorset and so far is the only find of the family in Britain and in Europe. Here we report the second one, from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Barremian) upper Weald Clay Formation of Smokejacks brickworks, Surrey. The new species is most closely allied to Jurathauma Zhang, Shih, Petrulevičius & Ren, 2011 and Typhothauma Ren & Shih, 2005 from the Middle Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of China respectively. However, the incomplete preservation hampers its generic identification, although the type locality is an active site (Jarzembowski, 2021) and additional material may be recovered in future.
{"title":"The first British Cretaceous eomeropid scorpionfly (Mecoptera: Eomeropidae)","authors":"A. Bashkuev, E. Jarzembowski","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"Eomeropidae is a relict family of Mecoptera with the sole living species, Notiothauma reedi McLachlan, 1877, inhabiting western parts of southern Chilean Valdivian forests. The family was more widely distributed in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, being known from 13 fossil species ranging in age from Early Jurassic to Oligocene (Soszyńska-Maj et al., 2016; Archibald & Rasnitsyn, 2018; Zhao et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2022). The oldest fossil eomeropid, Jurachorista bashkuevi Soszyńska-Maj, Krzemiński, Kopeć & Coram, 2016, was described from the Lower Jurassic Charmouth Mudstone Formation of Dorset and so far is the only find of the family in Britain and in Europe. Here we report the second one, from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Barremian) upper Weald Clay Formation of Smokejacks brickworks, Surrey. The new species is most closely allied to Jurathauma Zhang, Shih, Petrulevičius & Ren, 2011 and Typhothauma Ren & Shih, 2005 from the Middle Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of China respectively. However, the incomplete preservation hampers its generic identification, although the type locality is an active site (Jarzembowski, 2021) and additional material may be recovered in future.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41609264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.5
A. Kirejtshuk, Ramanuj Patel, R. Rana, A. Prokin, A. Nel, M. Jäch
A single elmid larva is reported from a laminate maroon shale bed of Gurha opencast lignite mine (Palana Formation, early Eocene, Bikaner District, north-western Rajasthan, India). It is the first fossil larva that can be attributed to Elmidae with certainty. A generic assignation is not possible, because the larva is strongly compressed, and the most important characters are not visible or poorly preserved. The larva is described morphologically and illustrated by photographs and line drawings. A larva of a holometabolous insect from Baltic amber, which was published recently as a member of Elmidae by Zippel et al. (2022), possesses no structural characters that would clearly suggest placement in this family. A photograph of the hitherto unknown larva of the extant Grouvellinus rioloides from Kyrgyzstan is included for comparison.
{"title":"Discovery of the oldest known elmid larva (Coleoptera, Elmidae) from the Lower Eocene of Rajasthan (India, Palana Formation)","authors":"A. Kirejtshuk, Ramanuj Patel, R. Rana, A. Prokin, A. Nel, M. Jäch","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"A single elmid larva is reported from a laminate maroon shale bed of Gurha opencast lignite mine (Palana Formation, early Eocene, Bikaner District, north-western Rajasthan, India). It is the first fossil larva that can be attributed to Elmidae with certainty. A generic assignation is not possible, because the larva is strongly compressed, and the most important characters are not visible or poorly preserved. The larva is described morphologically and illustrated by photographs and line drawings. A larva of a holometabolous insect from Baltic amber, which was published recently as a member of Elmidae by Zippel et al. (2022), possesses no structural characters that would clearly suggest placement in this family. A photograph of the hitherto unknown larva of the extant Grouvellinus rioloides from Kyrgyzstan is included for comparison.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44588230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.6
Simon Rosse-Guillevic, C. Jouault
Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov., a new species of evaniid wasp (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), is described and illustrated from a male specimen preserved in the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of the Noije Bum deposits (Myanmar). Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov. is readily attributed to the genus Cretevania because of its forewing venation (i.e., forewing with cell 1+2r elongate, longer than 3r and more than twice as long as pterostigma length, 3r narrower triangular, nearly as wide as 1+2r), but differs from all other species mainly because of its veins 2Rs+M (more developed than a simple contacting point) and 1Rs (subvertical to R), and the cell 2cua conformation (i.e., rectangular). This description highlights the underestimated diversity of evanioids in the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.
{"title":"A new species of Cretevania Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber","authors":"Simon Rosse-Guillevic, C. Jouault","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov., a new species of evaniid wasp (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), is described and illustrated from a male specimen preserved in the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of the Noije Bum deposits (Myanmar). Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov. is readily attributed to the genus Cretevania because of its forewing venation (i.e., forewing with cell 1+2r elongate, longer than 3r and more than twice as long as pterostigma length, 3r narrower triangular, nearly as wide as 1+2r), but differs from all other species mainly because of its veins 2Rs+M (more developed than a simple contacting point) and 1Rs (subvertical to R), and the cell 2cua conformation (i.e., rectangular). This description highlights the underestimated diversity of evanioids in the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.3
A. Nel, JEAN-PAUL Kundura
The lacustrine Konservat-Lagerstätte of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France) is a unique window in the terrestrial Paleocene environments of Western Europe (Wedmann et al., 2018). It has yielded an exceptional diversity of plants (leaves, flowers, seeds, pollen), and animals (vertebrates and arthropods, especially insects) (e.g., Piton, 1940). Nevertheless, flies are quite rare in this outcrop in which the paleo-entomofauna is dominated by beetles (69% of a collection of 3938 specimens). To date, this paleo-maar has given only one specimen of the family Bibionidae, a Plecia sp. (Nel, 2007). Piton (1940) also described a ‘Bibio sp.’, but Nel (2007) reexamined the two specimens of Piton, concluding that they are not bibionids. Thus, this family is clearly very rare in this outcrop. The Bibionidae seem to be quite rare in the Paleocene and early to middle Eocene outcrops of Western Europe (Oise amber, Baltic amber, Messel) (Gee et al., 2001; Nel, 2007; Skartveit & Wedmann, 2015; Skartveit, 2021). They are also rather rare in the late Eocene of the Isle of Wight (Krzemiński et al., 2019), while they are much more frequent in the younger, late Eocene, Oligocene, or Miocene paleolakes of France, Germany, and Spain (e.g., Monteils, Rott, Cereste, Dauphin, Aix-en-Provence, Rubielos de Mora, Ribesalbes, Montagne d’Andance, Sainte-Reine) (Peñalver-Molla, 1998, 2002; Skartveit & Nel, 2017; Skartveit & Wedmann, 2021). They are the most frequent insects in these outcrops.
Menat湖Konservat-Lagerstätte (Puy-de-Dôme，法国)是西欧陆地古新世环境的一个独特窗口(Wedmann et al.， 2018)。它产生了异常多样化的植物(叶、花、种子、花粉)和动物(脊椎动物和节肢动物，特别是昆虫)(例如，Piton, 1940)。然而，在这个以甲虫为主的古昆虫动物群中，苍蝇是相当罕见的(占3938个标本的69%)。到目前为止，这个古遗址只发现了一个Bibionidae科的标本，一个Plecia sp. (Nel, 2007)。Piton(1940)也描述了一种“bibionsp .”，但Nel(2007)重新检查了Piton的两个标本，得出结论认为它们不是bibionids。因此，这个家族在这个露头中显然是非常罕见的。Bibionidae在西欧的古新世和早至中始新世露头(Oise amber, Baltic amber, Messel)中似乎相当罕见(Gee et al.， 2001;Nel 2007;Skartveit & Wedmann, 2015;Skartveit, 2021)。它们在晚始新世的莱特岛也相当罕见(Krzemiński等人，2019)，而在法国、德国和西班牙的较年轻、晚始新世、渐新世或中新世古湖泊(例如，Monteils、Rott、Cereste、Dauphin、艾克斯-普罗旺斯、Rubielos de Mora、Ribesalbes、Montagne d 'Andance、Sainte-Reine)中则更为常见(Peñalver-Molla, 1998,2002;Skartveit & Nel, 2017;Skartveit & Wedmann, 2021)。它们是这些露头岩层中最常见的昆虫。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.4
A. Nel, JEAN-PAUL Kundura
The lacustrine Lagerstätte of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France) provides a unique window into the terrestrial Paleocene environments of Western Europe (Wedmann et al., 2018). It has shown an exceptional diversity of plants (leaves, flowers, seeds, pollen), and animals (vertebrates and arthropods, especially insects) (e.g., Piton, 1940). Wappler et al. (2009) made a first analysis of the animals-plants interactions. Recent extensive researches were made, allowing to collect an important set of leaves with numerous and diverse traces of activities, some of them being not previously recorded among the total of 1,130 specimens of leaves, fruits and flowers studied by Wappler et al. (2009). Among the new material, we found three curious sets of traces on a small leaf that do not correspond to anything previously listed by Labandeira et al. (2007). These traces can be attributed to the beetle subfamily Donaciinae (Chrysomelidae).
梅纳特湖（法国Puy-de-Dôme）为了解西欧陆生古新世环境提供了一扇独特的窗口（Wedmann et al.，2018）。它展示了植物（叶子、花朵、种子、花粉）和动物（脊椎动物和节肢动物，尤其是昆虫）的非凡多样性（例如，Piton，1940）。Wappler等人（2009）首次对动植物的相互作用进行了分析。最近进行了广泛的研究，从而收集到了一组具有大量多样活动痕迹的重要叶片，其中一些叶片在Wappler等人研究的1130个叶片、果实和花朵标本中没有记录。（2009）。在这些新材料中，我们在一片小叶上发现了三组奇怪的痕迹，这些痕迹与Labandeira等人之前列出的任何痕迹都不一致。（2007）。这些痕迹可归属于金花虫亚科（金花虫科）。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.2
QING-QING Zhang, Bo Wang, HAI-CHUN Zhang
Professor Jun-Feng Zhang, a distinguished Chinese palaeoentomologist, passed away in Nanjing on October 2, 2022, at the age of 76.
张俊峰教授，中国杰出的古昆虫学家，于2022年10月2日在南京逝世，享年76岁。
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