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December 2019
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143 Reads
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27 Citations
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Diptera fauna from the late Eocene of the Isle of Wight (Bembridge Marls) is studied including redescriptions of formerly described material. The fauna includes the following
August 2012
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59 Reads
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18 Citations
Cretaceous Research
Sinoprotodiplatys zhangi gen. et sp. nov. is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, near Beipiao City, China. It is one of the most recent representatives of the suborder Archidermaptera. The classification and synonymies among the archidermapteran families are reassessed. The palaeosynecological evolution of the Mesozoic earwigs is analysed using the new tool of the ‘Wagner Parsimony using Morphological Characters’ method (‘WAPUM’), suggesting that the evolution of the morphology of these insects was very progressive, perhaps owing to their way of life in the soil.
September 2010
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279 Reads
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11 Citations
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
G. 2010. New fossil non−cyclostome braconid wasps from the lowermost Eocene amber of Paris Basin. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (3): 519–527. Two braconid wasp taxa with enlarged eyes and ocelli indicative of probable nocturnal activity are discussed and de− scribed from the lowermost Eocene amber of the Paris Basin.The new tribe Palaeocharmontini nov., for new genus Palaeocharmon with type species Palaeocharmon basalis sp. nov. is described and illustrated in the subfamily Char− montinae. The similarity of this taxon with members of subfamilies Helconinae, Homolobinae, and Brachistinae is shown and the peculiar character [presence of hind wing recurrent vein (m−cu)] unknown previously in non−cyclostome braconids is discussed. A third fossil species of the genus Phanerotoma (Ph. menieri sp. nov.) is described and compared with known species from the Baltic amber.], Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sci− ences, ul. Wilcza 64, 00−679 Warszawa, Poland; André Nel [anel@mnhn.fr], Alain Waller, and Gael De Plöeg, Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, F−75005 Paris, France.
January 2010
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85 Reads
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10 Citations
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S )
Eatonisca tertiaria Meunier 1905, is redescribed from the Eocene Baltic amber, with details of the eyes, antennae and male genitalia structure provided. This fossil is placed within Trichomyiinae, and shares several plesiomorphies with Psychodinae, Phlebotominae, and Sycoracinae.
January 2009
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83 Reads
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10 Citations
Zootaxa
A larva of the damselfly family Calopterygidae is described from Eocene Baltic amber. It is the oldest record of this family partially filling the gap between previous records from the Oligocene and the Mesozoic inferred from molecular analyses for this family.
January 2009
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322 Reads
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6 Citations
July 2008
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974 Reads
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70 Citations
The Science of Nature
The Mantophasmatodea is the most recently discovered insect order. The fossil records of all other 'polyneopteran' orders extend far in the past, but the current absence of pre-Cenozoic fossils of the Mantophasmatodea contradicts a long evolutionary history, which has to be assumed from the morphological distinctness of the group. In this paper, we report the first Mesozoic evidence of a mantophasmatodean from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Furthermore, the new fossil shares apomorphic characters with Cenozoic and recent Mantophasmatodea, suggesting a longer evolutionary history of this order.
April 2008
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72 Reads
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28 Citations
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S )
The proportions of the different bibionid genera are used to estimate the temperature changes between the Late Eocene and the Late Miocene in Western Europe. The genus Plecia is a good indicator of the warm Cenozoic palaeoclimates. We propose a new approach for the estimation of the value of the palaeoclimatic information that could be obtained by actualistic inferences using extinct taxa. Other taxa (i.e. Mastotermitidae) that could appear a priori better palaeoclimatic indicators result to be less sensitive than bibionids to temperature changes. Intraspecific and intrageneric morphological diversity is explored for the genera Bibio, Penthetria and Plecia, showing the difficulties to characterize the fossil bibionid species.
December 2007
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88 Reads
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34 Citations
Cretaceous Research
The first fossil record of the Compsocidae, Burmacompsocus perreaui gen. et sp. nov., is described from Late Albian Burmese amber. Its strong similarity to the two extant compsocid genera suggests a remarkable morphological stability within this group of 100Ma. This family, now known only in Central America, was certainly more widespread in the past.
November 2006
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25 Reads
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3 Citations
Zootaxa
Myopsocus arthuri sp. n. is described from Dominican amber (Miocene?). This first fossil Myopsocidae shows some similarities with the recently described Australian genus Nimbopsocus.
... Mouthpart morphology can be useful to assess the trophic position of Dermaptera species (Coll & Guershon, 2002). In carnivorous species the incisive area occupies two thirds of the total mandibular length, while it is restricted to half the mandibular length in phytophagous and omnivorous species (Waller, Caussanel & Jamet, 1996). The few existing stable isotope data revealed high variability within and among species (Okuzaki et al., 2009), confirming an omnivorous diet with a wide range of consumed resources and diet switching. ...
January 1996
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France
... Identification keys (Braet et al. 2012;Koffi et al. 2020c) and characteristics of insects already identified using molecular barcodes from Africa (Agboyi et al. 2020;Durocher-Granger et al. 2021;Otim et al. 2021) were used to identify emerged parasitoids and collected predators (Brindle 1967;Waller et al. 1999;Kwadjo et al. 2012;Nicolas et al. 2015;Girod and Lassalle 2017). ...
January 1999
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France
... It is worth mentioning that two very similar species described from females preserved in Burmese amber are placed in two different genera and subfamilies, i.e., Burmaculex Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004 in the fossil subfamily Burmaculicinae (Borkent & Grimaldi, 2016) and Priscoculex Poinar et al., 2019 in the extant subfamily Anophelinae (Poinar et al., 2019). Fossil mosquitoes from the Tertiary were reviewed by Edwards (1923), Statz (1944), Evenhuis (1994), Szadziewski (1998), Krzemiński et al. (2019) and Giłka et al. (2021). Recently, Azar et al. (2023) described males of a chaoborid-like Libanoculex intermedius from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Barremian,, which they placed, as the presumed oldest fossil mosquito, in its own subfamily Libanoculicinae of the Culicidae. ...
December 2019
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
... The discovered biodiversity of Psocodea in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic is significantly higher, with fossils collected from various localities and horizons. Taxa from the Mesozoic are reported from the Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan [48] and the Cretaceous ambers of Canada, France, Lebanon (Table 1), Myanmar, Russia, Spain, and the USA [37,[49][50][51][52]. Taxa from the Cenozoic are reported from the Eocene limestone of England (Isle of Wight) [53], the Eocene ambers of the Baltic region, China (Fushun), France (Oise), Germany (Bitterfeld amber) and Ukraine (Rovno amber) [54][55][56][57][58][59][60], and the Miocene ambers of Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic [29,[61][62][63][64][65]. In the last two decades, the earliest definitive undisputed record of parasitic lice was Megamenopon rasnitsyni Wappler, Smith and Dalgleish, 2004, from the Eocene of Germany (Eckfeld maar) [66,67], although, the recent discovery of Archimenopon myanmarensis Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Zhang, Song, Shih, Ren, Wang, Li and Gao, 2024, assigned to the new stem family Archimenoponidae, from Burmese amber set back their oldest record to the mid-Cretaceous [68]. ...
November 2006
Zootaxa
... Nel et al. (2006) described Myopsocus arthuri from Dominican amber based on a single male specimen. We herein describe the female of this species, give a species diagnosis (missing in the original description) and recognize additional characters. ...
January 2006
... La présente étude exclut la faune entomologique de Madagascar qui, du fait de ses affi nités multiples, indo-australiennes et afrotropicales, a une histoire propre laquelle a été longuement traité au cours de colloques (Lourenço 1996 ;Vachon 1953), à travers les très nombreuses faunes publiées dans la collection « Faunes de Madagascar » et dans de très nombreuses publications (Noyes & Prinsloo 1998 ;Jamet et al. 1999;Betsch et al. 2000 ;Lecoq 2000 ;Gibon 2006 ;Gibon & Randriamasimanana 2007 ;Le Goff et al. 2007). ...
April 2000
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S )
... The new damselfly belongs to the family Calopterygidae, an ancient group (diversifying during the Cretaceous after Dumont et al., 2005), but with a rather reduced and strictly Cenozoic fossil record, viz. Sinocalopteryx shangyongensis Lin et al., 2010 from the lowermost Eocene of China; two calopterygid nymphs from the middle Eocene of Baltic amber (Bechly & Wichard, 2008;Fleck et al., 2009); Sapho armissani Nel, 1987 from the Oligocene of Armissan (France); Sapho sannoisiensis (Meunier, 1914) and Sapho legrandi Nel & Petrulevičius, 2010 from the Oligocene of Aix-en-Provence (France); Calopteryx andancensis Nel & Brisac, 1994 from the upper Miocene of Ardèche (France), and a 'Calopterygidae (?) (Species G)' described and figured by Gentilini & Bagli (2004) from the upper Miocene of Monte Castellaro (Italy). ...
January 2009
Zootaxa
... Little is known about the biology of extant evaniids, but their larvae are considered predators of cockroach eggs in oothecae (Huben, 1995). The Evaniidae have a good fossil record with the oldest species known from the late Hauterivian, numerous species documented up to the Miocene, and an important diversity in Burmese amber (e.g., Rasnitsyn et al., 1998;Nel et al., 2002;Deans et al., 2004;Jennings et al., 2012;Shih et al., 2020). Nevertheless, their past diversity is still underestimated. ...
July 2002
Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N S )
... In other ambers, only Dryinus vetustus Olmi, 1995 (uncertain group), from Dominican amber, and Dryinus balticus (Olmi, 1984) 1.8 mm)). In the unique fossil species of Pseudodryinus known by females, P. parisiensis Peinado, Nel & Waller, 2006, from Oise amber, the size is not small (4.0 mm). Overall, in Burmese amber, species of Dryinus and Hybristodryinus represented exclusively by small females are minority (2 of 10 species of Dryinus known by females (20%); 3 of 11 species known by females in Hybristodryinus (27%)). ...
April 2006
Zootaxa
... Among the remaining three extant genera, Sisyrina may have closer relationship with Sisyborina than Sisyra by the similar feature of gradate crossveins (i.e., seven subapical gradates present, and most of them interrupted centrally by a hyaline spot). Although the presence of gradate crossveins may be plesiomorphic in Sisyridae as many fossil genera possess this character state (Nel et al. 2003;Wichard et al. 2016;Yang et al. 2018), the peculiar interruption on many gradate crossveins probably stands to be apomorphic, suggesting the sister-group relationship between Sisyrina and Sisyborina. Besides, among the fossil genera that definitely belong to Sisyridae (Wichard et al. 2016;Lu & Liu 2021), i.e., Paleosisyra Nel et al., 2003, Prosisyrina Perkovsky & Makarkin, 2015, and Stictosisyra Yang et al., 2018, Sisyrina resembles Paleosisyra by having similar mouthpart characters (terminal segment of maxillary and labial palpus triangular in lateral view), wing venation (subapical gradates present) and male genitalia (sternum 9 short and simple) (Nel et al. 2003;Perkovsky & Makarkin 2015;Wichard et al. 2016;Yang et al. 2018). ...
April 2003
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