Cretaceous weevils from southern Africa, with description of a new genus and species and phylogenetic and zoogeographical comments (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Rayner ◽  
G. Kuschel ◽  
R.G. OBERPRIELER
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Fossil Genus ◽  
Evolutionary Stasis

AbstractThe mid-Cretaceous weevil fossils from the Orapa Diamond Mine in Botswana are studied, and a new genus and species, Orapaeus cretaceus Kuschel & Oberprieler, is described. This fossil genus is placed in the tribe Eurhynchini of Brentidae and compared with the two extant genera of the tribe. With the discovery of Orapaeus, the family Brentidae can, for the first time, be traced back to Cretaceous times, and there is evidence that the brentid subfamilies and perhaps also the tribes were already differentiated by the Middle Cretaceous. By contrast, the modern families of angiosperm plants were evidently not yet established by then. In consideration of the palaeoflora of Orapa, it is concluded that the environment probably was tropical and the area well vegetated, but that no clues are present as to the likely hostplant(s) of Orapaeus. The differences between Orapaeus and the extant Eurhynchini suggest that the fossil insect fauna of Orapa is generally assignable to extinct forms, and these differences do not support a hypothesis of prolonged evolutionary stasis.

Pinguisoperla, a new fossil genus of Perlidae (Insecta: Plecoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4425 (3) ◽  
pp. 596 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHI-TENG CHEN
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Genus ◽  
Dark Coloration

A new fossil stonefly genus and species of the family Perlidae, Pinguisoperla yangzhouensis gen. et sp. nov., is proposed as the second known genus from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new genus is characterized by its dark coloration and the basally enlarged and curved cerci. Morphological characters of the new genus and species are described, illustrated, and compared with related taxa. 

A new fossil genus of the family Glaphyridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2811 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. V. NIKOLAJEV ◽  
BO WANG ◽  
HAICHUN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Genus

Lithohypna chifengensis, new genus and species of the family Glaphyridae MacLeay, 1819 is described and illustrated from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liutiaogou of Inner Mongolia, China.

Fossil crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Late Cretaceous cárdenas Formation, east-central Mexico

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Vega ◽  
Rodney M. Feldmann ◽  
Francisco Sour-Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Family ◽  
Marine Lagoon ◽  
First Time

Twenty-four nearly complete carapace samples were collected at three different localities of the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) Cárdenas Formation in San Luis Potosí, east-central Mexico. The material has been assigned to five families: the Callianassidae, Dakoticancridae, Carcineretidae, ?Majidae, and Retroplumidae. Two genera of callianassid shrimp are described, Cheramus for the first time in the fossil record. Dakoticancer australis Rathbun is reported as the most abundant crustacean element; one new genus and species of carcineretid crab, Branchiocarcinus cornatus, is erected, and a single, fragmentary specimen is questionably referred to the Majidae. The three localities reflect paleoenvironmental differences, exhibited by different lithologies, within marginal marine, lagoon environments. The record of dakoticancrid crabs in the Cardenas Formation extends the paleobiogeographic range of the family and the genus Dakoticancer. Carcineretid crabs, although not abundant, seem to have been a persistent element of crustacean assemblages in clastic environments during the Late Cretaceous of the ancestral Gulf Coast of Mexico.

Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (Late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the early phylogeny of Cirroidea

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Frýda ◽  
Robert B. Blodgett
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Devonian ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
West Central ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

Two new cirroidean gastropod genera, Alaskiella (family Porcelliidae) and Alaskacirrus (family Cirridae), from the Emsian (late Early Devonian) of west-central Alaska (Medfra B-4 quadrangle) are described. The shell of Alaskiella medfraensis new genus and species exhibits inclined heterostrophic coiling. This shell character is known among other members of the subclass Archaeogastropoda, but is recorded for the first time within members of the superfamily Cirroidea. Inclined heterostrophic coiling of the shell was probably developed independently in several different groups of the subclass Archaeogastropoda. The new genus Alaskacirrus, represented by Alaskacirrus bandeli new species, is the oldest and only known Paleozoic member of the family Cirridae. This suggests that the family Cirridae was separated from the family Porcelliidae since at least Early Devonian time and that it most probably developed from the subfamily Agnesiinae of the family Porcelliidae. Thus, the stratigraphic range of the family Cirridae is at least from Lower Devonian to Cretaceous, an interval of about 350 million years.

A new genus and species of the family Archipsyllidae (Insecta: Paraneoptera: Permopsocida) from the Late Triassic of Queensland

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4382 (1) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
KEVIN J. LAMBKIN
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The Family

The dedicated collecting of Robert Knezour of Ipswich continues to uncover remarkable finds in the Late Triassic (Norian) Dinmore fossil insect locality of south-east Queensland. The latest discovery is a forewing of the extinct family Archipsyllidae, described herein as Dinmopsylla semota gen. et sp. nov., the first record of the family from the Triassic and from the southern hemisphere. 

scholarly journals A new genus and species of Baissidae in Late Cretaceous amber from New Jersey (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea)

2013 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Engel
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

The extinct Mesozoic wasp family Baissidae is described from Late Cretaceous amber for the first time. Electrobaissa omega Engel, new genus and species, is described from an isolated male preserved in Turonian amber from New Jersey, and represents the latest occurrence of the family in the Mesozoic.

A new genus, new species and a new record of the family Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Microcerotermes  parvus (Haviland) (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1881-1892
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Khaustov ◽  
Elizabeth A. Hugo-Coetzee ◽  
Sergey G. Ermilov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

A new genus and species of termitophilous pygmephorid mites, Pseudoluciaphorus tuberosus gen. nov. and sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Pygmephoridae), associated with termites, Microcerotermes parvus (Haviland) (Isoptera: Termitidae) are described from South Africa. Luciaphorus perniciosus Rack is recorded from Africa for the first time. Images of phoretic females of L. perniciosus phoretic on workers and soldiers of Microcerotermes parvus are provided. 

scholarly journals Astrocoryne cabela, gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Hydrozoa : Sphaerocorynidae), a new sponge-associated hydrozoan

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Maggioni ◽  
Paolo Galli ◽  
Michael L. Berumen ◽  
Roberto Arrigoni ◽  
Davide Seveso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Polyp Stage ◽  
Molecular Assessment ◽  
First Time

The family Sphaerocorynidae includes two valid genera and five species, most of which have a confusing taxonomic history. Here, a new genus and species, Astrocoryne cabela, gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Maldives and the Red Sea, based on both morphological and molecular evidence. Astrocoryne cabela has an apomorphy represented by the type of tentacles, here named ‘dicapitate’, and consisting of capitate tentacles with a proximal capitulum-like cluster of nematocysts. Molecular analyses confirmed the monophyly of this species, as well as its belonging to the Sphaerocorynidae, together with Sphaerocoryne spp. and Heterocoryne caribbensis Wedler & Larson, 1986, for which we present molecular data for the first time. Moreover, the high divergence of A. cabela from other species of the family justifies the establishment of a new genus. Interestingly, specimens from the Maldives and the Red Sea showed marked morphological variation in the polyp stage, although only a slight genetic divergence was detected. This study highlights that a comprehensive morpho-molecular assessment of Sphaerocorynidae is strongly needed in order to clarify the taxonomic issues and the diversity of this taxon.

The limits of the family Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and a new genus from Lebanese Amberamber

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan H. Basibuyuk ◽  
Mike G. Fitton ◽  
Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn ◽  
Donald L.J. Quicke
Keyword(s):  
Fore Wing ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe definition of the family Evaniidae is revised and Cretevaniidae are synonymised with Evaniidae based on evidence derived from recently described Mesozoic taxa and a new genus and species, Lebanevania azari, described here from Lebanese amber. A fore leg with a long trochanter and a 12-segmented antenna are autapomorphies of the new genus. A large, high and wide head and a high and short mesosoma are derived characters shared with other Evaniidae. The new genus also has complete fore wing venation and lacks a tubular petiole, which are ground plan features of the Evanioidea. A cladistic analysis of fossil and extant members of the superfamily Evanioidea and notes on fossil taxa are presented.

A SYNOPSIS OF THE NEARCTIC BRACONINI, WITH REVISIONS OF NEARCTIC SPECIES OF COELOIDES AND MYOSOMA (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE)

1978 ◽  
Vol 110 (7) ◽  
pp. 721-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. M. Mason
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Chihuahuan Desert ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
First Time ◽  
Nearctic Region

AbstractThe 11 genera of Nearctic Braconini are keyed: two of them, Myosoma Brullé with a wide pantropical range and Alienoclypeus Shenefelt, new genus, are found chiefly in the Chihuahuan desert and shrub fauna of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S.A. and are recorded as Nearctic for the first time. Four new species are described in Myosoma: eumystax, impexum, longius, and durango. R. D. Shenefelt describes a new genus and species, Alienoclypeus insolitus. The genus Atanycolimorpha Viereck, 1913 is synonymized with Ipobracon Thomson, 1892. The genus Coeloides is revised for the Nearctic Region; 12 species are described and illustrated. Five of these are new: mexicanus, durangensis, sympitys, tsugatorus, and sonora. One species, C. rossicus (Kokujev), is Holarctic, a new subspecies, betulae, is described from Canada. The following are new synonyms: C. rufovariegatus (Provancher) = (dendroctoni Cushman), C. vancouverensis (Dalla Torre) = (brunneri Viereck), C. crocator (Kirby) = (promontorii Dalla Torre).

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