scholarly journals First Record Of Fossil Species Of The Genus Tetramorium (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Radchenko ◽  
G. M. Dlussky
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Modern Genus ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract Two extinct species of the modern genus Tetramorium Mayr, T. paraarmatum sp. n. and T. kulickae sp. n., are described from the Baltic amber (Poland, ca. 37 Ma). This is the first record of the fossil species of this genus. Described species resemble recent Palaearctic species, and we preliminarily place them to the inerme and caespitum species groups, respectively. Findings of other, previously non-recorded and not described yet fossil Tetramorium species from the Middle (or possibly Early) Eocene and Miocene deposits of Europe and North America are discussed.

scholarly journals New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2157 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. BRUCE ARCHIBALD ◽  
VLADIMIR N. MAKARKIN ◽  
JÖRG ANSORGE
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Australian Region ◽  
New Republic

Two new fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) are described: Nymphes georgei sp. nov. from the Early Eocene locality at Republic, Washington, U.S.A., and Pronymphes hoffeinsorum sp. nov. from Late Eocene Baltic amber. The assignment of the new Republic species to Nymphes Leach maintains some doubt. This is the first fossil record of the genus (or one very closely related), today restricted to the Australian region, and its biogeographical implications are briefly discussed. The genus Pronymphes Krüger is considered to be valid and a diagnosis is provided, as is an amended diagnosis for the wings of Nymphes.

The Early Cambrian worm tube Onuphionella from California and Nevada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W. Signor ◽  
Mark A. S. Mcmenamin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Cambrian ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Modern Genus ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Middle Member

Two new species of worm tubes referable to the genus Onuphionella occur in Lower Cambrian strata in eastern California and western Nevada. Onuphionella durhami n. sp. is found in the Campito Formation (in pre-trilobite strata, in the Fallotaspis and, possibly, the Nevadella Zones) and O. claytonensis n. sp. occurs in the Middle Member of the Poleta Formation (Nevadella Zone). The unusual tubes are armored with an imbricated coat of mica flakes, reminiscent of the modern genus Owenia. The lowest occurrence of Onuphionella in western North America corresponds closely with the lowest occurrence of the genus in the Baltic region, indicating that correlations between the two regions are not greatly in error.

scholarly journals A new species of <i>Lacinius</i> in amber (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Fossil Record ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Mitov ◽  
J. A. Dunlop ◽  
D. Penney
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
A New Species

Abstract. A new specimen of Lacinius Thorell, 1876; (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) from Eocene Baltic amber is described. We interpret it as conspecific with a slightly younger record from the German Bitterfeld amber, originally referred to as the extant species L. erinaceus Staręga, 1966. Our new specimen reveals pedipalpal apophyses on both the patella and the tibia, features which we can now confirm in the Bitterfeld fossil too. This unique character combination for the genus justifies a new, extinct species: Lacinius bizleyi sp. nov. The Baltic amber inclusion dates to ca. 44–49 Ma, and is thus the oldest putative example of Lacinius in the fossil record. It is a further example of an arachnid species shared between Baltic and Bitterfeld amber.

A new biting midge of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818 from Miocene Ethiopian amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
RYSZARD SZADZIEWSKI ◽  
ELŻBIETA SONTAG ◽  
MADELINE V. PANKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Gulf Of Gdańsk ◽  
Biting Midges ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Biting Midge ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
The World ◽  
Sakhalin Amber

Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) are a relatively well-studied family of nematocerous flies distributed worldwide, including 6,206 extant and 296 fossil species. To date, 1,146 extant and 32 fossil species in the genus Forcipomyia have been recorded in the world (Borkent & Dominiak, 2020). Biting midges of the subgenus Forcipomyia s. str. are indicative of forests because their larvae and pupae usually live under the bark of rotting trees (Szadziewski, 2018). The oldest records of the genus are from the Eocene. Forcipomyia are reported from early Eocene Fushun amber (one species; Hong, 1981; Stebner et al., 2016; Szadziewski, 2018; Krzemiński et al., 2019), early Eocene Cambay amber (unnamed, Stebner et al., 2017), middle Eocene Sakhalin amber (one species, Szadziewski & Sontag, 2013), Eocene Baltic amber from the Gulf of Gdańsk, Rovno and Bitterfeld (21 species; Szadziewski, 1988, Szadziewski, 1993, Sontag & Szadziewski, 2011), Miocene Dominican amber (10 species, Szadziewski & Grogan, 1998) and Miocene Mexican amber (unnamed, Szadziewski & Grogan, 1996).

Comparative morphological and biometrical studies on Trhypochthonius species of the tectorum species group (Acari: Oribatida: Trhypochthoniidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2269 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERD WEIGMANN ◽  
GÜNTHER RASPOTNIG
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
High Similarity ◽  
Biometrical Analysis ◽  
Central European ◽  
Biogeographical Distribution ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Species Groups

Three European taxa of the Trhypochthonius-tectorum complex are differentiated and described: Trhypochthonius tectorum (Berlese) s. str., T. silvestris europaeus n. subsp. and T. japonicus n. forma occidentalis. These taxa are compared with T. americanus (Ewing), T. silvestris Jacot and T. japonicus Aoki. Because of the high similarity among these species, a biometrical analysis is performed which confirmed three species groups with disjunct distributions: Trhypochthonius tectorum in Europe with T. tectorum americanus (n. comb.) in North America, T. silvestris in North America with T. s. europaeus n. subsp. in Europe, T. japonicus in Japan with T. japonicus n. forma occidentalis in Europe. The relationships of further Palaearctic species of this complex are discussed and we propose taxonomical changes: Trhypochthonius tectorum fujinitaensis Fujikawa (n. comb.) and T. t. stercus Fujikawa (n. comb.); T. silvestris misumaiensis Fujikawa (n. comb.) and T. s. septentrionalis Fujikawa (n. comb.). The disjunct biogeographical distribution of the members of the three species leads to the assumption of a relative high geological age of the parthenogenetic species-complex of “T. tectorum s. lat.”. A key for the Central European species of Trhypochthonius is presented.

A new wolf spider species in the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Eastern Europe

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3484 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
ANTON A. NADOLNY ◽  
ALEXANDR V. PONOMAREV ◽  
KONSTANTIN V. DVADNENKO
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Wolf Spider ◽  
Taxonomic Structure ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Spider Species ◽  
Western Kazakhstan ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Year 2000

The wolf spider genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885, contains 160 named species (Platnick 2012) and the type species of the genus is A. fabrilis (Clerck, 1757), which is a Palaearctic species like most species in the genus (Platnick 2012). The taxonomic structure of the genus has been studied in two revisions; Lugetti & Tongiorgi (1969) divided 24 species of European Alopecosa into five species groups and Dondale & Redner (1979) divided seven species from North America into three groups. Many species currently in Alopecosa do not appear to be related to the type species; hence the genus is polyphyletic and should be divided into several genera (Marusik & Kovblyuk 2011). Faunistic revisions of Alopecosa have been produced for Italy (Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969), Romania (Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971), North America (Dondale & Redner 1979), China (Song et al. 1999) and Sweden (Almquist 2005). In the Ukraine and European Russia, 18 and 22 species have been reported, respectively (Mikhailov 1997, 2000). Twenty species of Alopecosa have been described since the year 2000 (Platnick 2012), including one from Central Europe (Czech Republic and Slovakia) (Buchar 2001), one from Greece (Buchar 2001), one from Southwestern Russia and six species from Western Kazakhstan (Ponomarev 2007, 2008, 2009).

First record of the genus Phanerotomella (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Baltic amber with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4482 (1) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
REBECCA N. KITTEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fore Wing ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
First Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Wing Vein ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Modern Genus ◽  
A New Species

A new but exinct chelonine wasp species, Phanerotomella brevivena Kittel sp. nov. (Braconidae: Cheloninae) of the modern genus Phanerotomella is described from Baltic amber. This new species differs from all other extant Phanerotomella species by having the fore wing vein SR-1 only partially sclerotised. This is the first fossil record of the genus in amber. 

A revision of the genus Conocrinus d’Orbigny, 1850 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Rhizocrinidae) and its place among extant and fossil crinoids with a xenomorphic stalk

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4560 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHEL ROUX ◽  
MARC ELÉAUME ◽  
NADIA AMÉZIANE
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Campanian

The genus Conocrinus d’Orbigny, 1850 (Crinoidea, Bourgueticrinina) was established on the basis of two aboral cups that had previously been described as Bourgueticrinus thorenti d’Archiac, 1846. One of these (now considered lost) came from the “Rocher du Goulet” at the base of the Biarritz section (Bartonian, Côte des Basques, southwest France). D’Archiac figured only the second cup; this belongs to the d’Orbigny Collection and is still housed in the palaeontological collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris) as the lectotype of the species, C. thorenti. It appears that it was collected from Priabonian levels exposed near Castellane (Alpes de Haute Provence, southeast France). New observations on this cup, as well as a detailed study of the characters of aboral cups, columnals and proximal brachials in a few extant and fossil species classically attributed to Conocrinus or to closely related genera such as Democrinus, Rhizocrinus and Tormocrinus, have yielded arguments for a revision of the taxonomy and interrelationships of extant and fossil taxa in the family Bourgueticrinidae. Conocrinus (= Tormocrinus), as here interpreted, includes six Eocene species: C. thorenti, C. archiaci, C. cahuzaci n. sp., C. duperrieri, C. cf. suessi and C. veronensis. Numerous extinct species previously attributed to Conocrinus or Democrinus are here transferred to two new genera which first occur in the lower Paleocene: Paraconocrinus n. gen. (type species: P. pyriformis) and Pseudoconocrinus n. gen. (type species: P. doncieuxi). Aboral cups from the “Rocher du Goulet” (Biarritz) are here assigned to Paraconocrinus pellati n. gen., n. sp., while the Danian species Democrinus maximus is transferred to Pseudoconocrinus n. gen. A new genus, Cherbonniericrinus, is created to accommodate a single extant species, Ch. cherbonnieri, previously attributed to Conocrinus, while the extant genus Rhizocrinus, closely related to Democrinus, is resurrected. Conocrinus and closely related genera are derived from a bourgueticrinine lineage the first record of which is from the lower Campanian, with the new genus Carstenicrinus. These are all attributed to the family Rhizocrinidae which is here considered distinct from the family Bourgueticrinidae. Rhizocrinids rapidly diversified immediately after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) event. Cretaceous taxa previously placed within the family Bourgueticrinidae now appear to be polyphyletic. Some of them do not belong to Bourgueticrinina, such as those of the Dunnicrinus lineage. Interrelationships of Rhizocrinidae and other post-Palaeozoic families having a xenomorphic stalk are discussed. 

The first record of the subfamily Xenoscelinae (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) from the Baltic amber

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 963-969
Author(s):  
G. Yu. Lyubarsky ◽  
E. E. Perkovsky ◽  
V. I. Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals First Records of Scolebythidae And Chrysididae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) In Rovno Amber

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Perkovsky ◽  
A. P. Rasnitsyn
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Rovno Amber ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Tribe ◽  
The Baltic

, Recorded from the Late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) are above 300 families of Arthropoda. One hundred, seventy-four new species, 35 new genera and one new tribe have been described there in 45 families, including 42 species, 9 genera and one tribe of Hymenoptera. The first record of Scolebythidae is documented herein along with more detail information about Chrysididae which was only mentioned there before. Chrysidids are diverse and not very rare in the Rovno amber: four known inclusions represent at least three species in two genera. This makes a contrast with the Baltic amber: of 34 specimens known to Brues (1933), 30 represent only two species. Genera Pristapenesia BruesPalaeobethylus Brues and Palaeobethyloides Brues and species Palaeobethylus politus Brues and Pristapenesia primaeva Brues, previously known in Baltic amber only, are recorded in Rovno amber as well.

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