scholarly journals First record of a non-pollinating fig wasp (Hymenoptera: Sycophaginae) from Dominican amber, with estimation of the size of its host figs

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (35-36) ◽  
pp. 2237-2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando H. A. Farache ◽  
Jean-Yves Rasplus ◽  
Dany Azar ◽  
Rodrigo A. S. Pereira ◽  
Stephen G. Compton
Botany ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 530-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Poinar ◽  
Royce Steeves

The Myristicaceae is a member of the early diverging angiosperm order Magnoliales; however, the family is poorly represented by fossil collections. We describe Virola dominicana sp. nov. (Myristicaceae), the first record of fossilized Myristicaceae flowers, from mid-Tertiary (45–15 million years ago) Dominican amber. The description is based on 24 male flowers in 17 pieces of amber, thus providing some indication of intraspecific variation, including a two-tepaled flower. Diagnostic characters of the new species are the long-simple or few-branched trichomes on the perianth margins, the small pollen grains, and a short staminal column. These fossils also show co-occurring insects, some of which could be Virola pollinators. It is speculated that V. dominicana disappeared from Hispaniola during the Pliocene–Pleistocene cooling events leaving no native members of the Myristicaceae in this region today. Additionally, these fossils demonstrate that Myristicaceae was present in the Western Hemisphere during the mid-Tertiary.


Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1337 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON VAN NOORT ◽  
YAN-QIONG PENG ◽  
JEAN-Y RASPLUS

Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus glaberrima and Diaziella yangi van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus curtipes in Xishuangbanna, China. Together with a new record of Diaziella macroptera Grandi from Thailand this is the first time the genus has been recorded from the Asian mainland. Previously the twelve described species of Diaziella were known from the islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Images are provided for both sexes of the two new species and for the female of D. macroptera. A key is included to all described species of Diaziella. An online key is available at: http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoecinae/Key/ Diaziella.htm. Host relationships and biology are discussed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Herczek

First record of the plant bug subfamily Psallopinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Miridae) from Dominican amber, with a description of a new species of the genus Psallops Usinger, 1946 The plant bug subfamily Psallopinae SCHUH 1976 is reported from Dominican amber for the first time. Psallops popovi Herczek sp. n. is described, illustrated and interpreted.


2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONG WANG ◽  
ASHLEY MATTHEWS ◽  
JOANNE RATCLIFFE ◽  
LOUISE J. BARWELL ◽  
YAN-QIONG PENG ◽  
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Fossil Record ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andris Bukejs ◽  
Andrei A. Legalov

Abstract. A new pear-shaped weevil, Toxorhynchus europeoeocenicus Bukejs et Legalov, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Apioninae), is described from upper Eocene Rovno amber using X-ray microcomputed tomography (µCT). The new fossil species differs from the extinct Toxorhynchus robustus Poinar et Legalov, 2015 (Dominican amber, lower Miocene) in the larger body size, narrower elytral striae, and wider pronotum. It is the first record of the family Brentidae in Rovno amber and the first record of the genus Toxorhynchus in the eastern hemisphere (urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FB7B299-EE75-4556-B4EA-203A3CBED84C).


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica M. Solórzano-Kraemer ◽  
Xavier Delclòs ◽  
Enrique Peñalver ◽  
Bradley J. Sinclair

A new fossil genus of the family Hybotidae is described, based on male and female specimens. The new genus is monotypic: Syneproctus caridadi gen. et sp. nov. It belongs to the subfamily Hybotinae and shares some characters with the extant genera Syneches Walker, 1852, Stenoproctus Loew, 1858 and Chillcottomyia Saigusa, 1986; however, the differences, principally in the wing venation (shortened cua cell, horizontal m-cu crossvein) and sclerotized mouthparts, support the description of a new genus. This is the first description of a new taxon of the subfamily Hybotinae from specimens preserved in Dominican amber.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Ryszard Szadziewski ◽  
Elżbieta Sontag ◽  
Błażej Bojarski
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2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Irina Brake

AbstractSeven new species of Milichiella are described from Dominican amber: M. archaia n. sp., M. dolichosurstyla n. sp., M. dominicana n. sp., M. hennigi n. sp., M. margaretae n. sp., M. quadrisetosa n. sp., and M. theodori n. sp. These species represent the first record of the sub-family Milichiinae in amber and the first descriptions of the family in Dominican amber. The fossil species differ from extant species only in species-level details except M. archaia, which probably belongs to the stemline of Milichiella + Ulia.


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