scholarly journals Extant Genus in the Mesozoic: Paleoplatyura Meunier (Diptera: Keroplatidae) Found in the Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Jan Ševčík ◽  
Wiesław Krzemiński ◽  
Kornelia Skibińska
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of Paleoplatyura Meunier, 1899, i.e., Paleoplatyura agnieszkae sp. nov., P. miae sp. nov., and P. magnifica sp. nov., are described and figured. The concept of the genus is briefly discussed, and its systematic position is clarified. A key to fossil species is provided. The genus Paleoplatyura is described from the Eocene Baltic amber. It is concluded that, in Baltic amber, this group is represented only by the type species, and the identity of the other two species is problematic. No additional specimens have been found so far in this amber. Therefore, the presence of as many as three new species in Burmese amber, certainly belonging to Paleoplatyura, is a confirmation of its occurrence already in the Mesozoic.

scholarly journals Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea) in early Eocene Cambay amber

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frauke Stebner ◽  
Hukam Singh ◽  
Jes Rust ◽  
David A. Grimaldi
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
The Third ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
Three New Species

One new genus and three new species of Lygistorrhinidae in early Eocene Cambay amber from India are described, which significantly increases our knowledge about this group in the Eocene.Lygistorrhina indican. sp. is the oldest fossil known from this extant genus.Indorrhina sahniin. gen. et sp. shows morphological similarities to each of the two extant generaLygistorrhinaandAsiorrhina.Palaeognoriste orientaleis the third species known from a group that has only been recorded from Eocene Baltic amber before. The latter finding reveals faunal links between Cambay amber and the probably slightly younger Baltic amber, adding further evidence that faunal exchange between Europe/Asia and India took place before the formation of Cambay amber.

scholarly journals Recent discoveries of new Elephantomyia (Diptera, Limoniidae) fossils in Baltic amber

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Kania-Kłosok ◽  
Wiesław Krzemiński
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Morphological Pattern ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Taxonomic Decision ◽  
D Cell ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Specific Food

AbstractNew data on the genus Elephantomyia (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber are presented. A new subgenus Hoffeinsonia subgen. nov. is established with one new species: Elephantomyia (Hoffeinsonia) prima sp. nov. The new subgenus is characterized by a wing at most 2.5 × as long as it is wide without a darker pattern along the veins Sc and R1, elongate Sc, straight vein R1, sharp half of vein R2+3+4 sharply arched to the upper edge of the wing, short, wide, trapezoidal d-cell and oval pterostigma. The fossil subgenus Hoffeinsonia subgen. nov. shares features with the extant subgenera Elephantomyodes and Elephantomyia. One other extinct species of Elephantomyia was discovered and described herein as E. (s. str.) christelae sp. nov. Such features as a very elongate vein R2+3+4, 2.5 × as long as the Rs easily allowing this new species to be distinguished from the other fossil representatives of the genus Elephantomyia. The taxonomic decision on Elephantomyia grata as a species placed in nominative subgenus is provided. A list and key of fossil species of Elephantomyia are given. The morphological pattern of the genus is discussed in relation to the adaptation to a specific food spectrum, coevolution with Angiospermae of the representative genus Helius known since Cretaceous and closely related to this genus representatives of the much younger genus Elephantomyia.

The genus Benthofascis (Gastropoda: Conoidea): A revision with descriptions of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2796 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. TUCKER ◽  
M. J. TENORIO ◽  
P. STAHLSCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Geologic Record ◽  
First Time

The conoidean gastropod genus Benthofascis Iredale, 1936 is examined. This genus of Conorbidae has extant species. Three previously described species from the Recent including the type species B. biconica (Hedley), B. sarcinula (Hedley), and B. lozoueti Sysoev & Bouchet are reviewed. Three new species from the Recent, B. conorbioides sp. nov., B. pseudobiconica sp. nov., and B. angularis sp. nov. are described from Australia. One of these (B. angularis) is the first Benthofascis species described from Western Australia. Two fossil species originally described as Conorbis from the Miocene and Oligocene of Australia (C. atractoides Tate and C. otwayensis Long, respectively) are for the first time assigned to Benthofascis, thus extending the geologic record of the genus to the Oligocene.

scholarly journals A new species of Platypelochares from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Limnichidae)

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carles Hernando ◽  
Karol Szawaryn ◽  
Ignacio Ribera
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of Limnichidae (Coleoptera) from Eocene Baltic amber, Platypelochares electricus sp. nov. The species belongs to the extant genus Platypelochares Champion, 1923, with six species distributed in the Oriental Region, characterised by an almost hemispherical shape, lateral articulation of the meso- and metatarsi, and presence of excavations on the hypomera. Platypelochares electricus sp. nov. can be separated from the other species of the genus mainly by the longer extension of the row of tubercles on the pronotum and the punctation of the elytra and metacoxa.

A new species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae: Belytinae) from Eocene Baltic amber

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 614-622
Author(s):  
CORENTIN JOUAULT ◽  
ANDRÉ NEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Parasitoid Wasps ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extant Genus ◽  
A New Species

Acropiesta perrichoti sp. nov., a new belytine wasp is described based on a well preserved male specimen from Eocene Baltic amber. This is the second fossil species of this extant genus, known already from the same amber deposit by Acropiesta janzeni Buhl, 2002.

Elimaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) and its relative from China, with description of twenty-three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3020 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
CHUN-XIANG LIU ◽  
XIAN-WEI LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Proximal Part ◽  
The Other ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Dorsal Part ◽  
New Subgenus ◽  
Large Genus ◽  
Three New Species

Elimaea Stål is a comparatively large genus in the subfamily Phaneropterinae, which is mostly characterized by symmetric exposed tibial tympana and commonly distributed in Asia. The genus includes 6 subgenera and 131 valid species. However, species diversity of the genus Elimaea has been occasionally investigated in China. Here we provide a checklist of 53 species in the genus Elimaea and its relative from China, among which 23 species are new to science. We also establish one new subgenus Rectielimaea subgen. nov. for the type species Elimaea (Rectielimaea) percauda sp. nov., which is distinguished from other subgenera by the phallus with a long log-like sclerite horizontally produced outwards. In addition, we consider that proximal part of MP+CuIP vein in tegminal dorsal part is possibly more or less different among species and subgenera: (a) straight in the subgenera Elimaea and Rectielimaea subgen. nov. and in the species Elimaea (Schizelimaea) mira Gorochov, 2009, or (b) more or less convex laterad in the other subgenera without exception of other species in the subgenus Schizelimaea. Necessary illustrations are provided.

scholarly journals A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (Class Hydrozoa, Order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2147 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. PUGH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

The last reviewer of the family Sphaeronectidae (Siphonophora, Calycophorae) (Carré, 1968c) considered that it consisted of a single genus, Sphaeronectes, containing five species; three of which had been recently described by himself. For the other two species there had been much nomenclatural confusion in the past, as is herein reviewed. It is considered that for one of these species the name Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley (1859) has priority over the name currently in usage, that is S. gracilis (Claus, 1873; 1874). In addition the status of S. brevitruncata (Chun, 1888) is reconsidered and the species considered valid, with S. japonica (Stepanjants, 1967) being considered as a likely junior synonym of it. Three new Sphaeronectes species, S. christiansonae sp. nov., S. haddocki sp. nov. and S. tiburonae sp. nov., are described, and the systematic position of the genus reconsidered in the light of preliminary molecular phylogenetic data.

Three new species and redescription of the type species of Soesilarishius Makhan, 2007 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4196 (2) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
GUSTAVO R.S. RUIZ ◽  
ADRIANA T. SOBRINHO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

Four syntopic species of Soesilarishius Makhan, 2007 are recorded from the Floresta Estadual do Trombetas, Oriximiná, Pará, Brazil. The first is the type species of the genus, S. amrishi Makhan, 2007, of which we redescribe the male and describe the female for the first time. The other three species are new and described herein based on both sexes: S. laticlavus sp. nov., S. trombetas sp. nov. and S. elongatulus sp. nov. 

Synopsis of extinct Bruchomyiinae (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Burmese, Baltic and Dominican amber, with descriptions of new genera and species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4320 (1) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
RÜDIGER WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
Extant Genus

Bruchomyiinae from Burmese, Baltic, and Caribbean amber are revised. Five new species from Baltic, one from Caribbean and three from Burmese amber are described. Based on recently discovered specimens, additional details and corrections for previously described species are provided. Six species from Baltic amber were combined in Hoffeinsodes gen. nov. (Hoffeinsodes obtusa sp. nov., H. bifida sp. nov., H. cubicula sp. nov., H. longicauda sp. nov., H. reducta sp. nov. and H. hoffeinsi (Wagner 2006) comb. nov.), based on the fusion of gonocoxites and hypandrium, and a laterally expanded epandrium with posterolateral lobes. Genus Palaeosycorax Meunier, 1905 is re-validated, with Palaeosycorax inexpetatus (Wagner, 2012) comb. nov. included. Caribbean amber species Boreofairchildia dominicana sp. nov. and B. hennigianus (Schlüter, 1978) comb. nov. are congeneric with extant genus Boreofairchildia Wagner & Stuckenberg, 2016. Three new and two described species from Burmese amber are combined in Palaeoglaesum gen. nov. (Palaeoglaesum quadrispiculatum (Stebner et al., 2015) comb. nov., P. velteni (Wagner, 2012) comb. nov., P. muelleri sp. nov., P. bisulcum sp. nov., P. notandum sp. nov.), based on their small size relative to other Bruchomyiinae, and presence of a Y-shaped aedeagal sclerite. Keys to males of species in particular ambers are provided. 

scholarly journals New species of caddisflies with bipectinate antennae from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera: Odontoceratidae, Calamoceratidae)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Wichard ◽  
Marianne Espeland ◽  
Patrick Müller ◽  
Bo Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Fossil Genus

Three new fossil species from Burmese amber are described, one clearly in family Calamoceratidae, the other two in the highly variable family Odontoceridae. The family Odontoceridae contains 18 disparate genera, but there are no good diagnostic characters, which makes it difficult to place fossil taxa in this family. We here offer a revised diagnosis for the family, highlighting the lack of good diagnostic characters, and the need to use sets of characters to place (extinct) taxa in this family. On this taxonomic basis we describe two new species in the hitherto monotypic fossil genus Palaeopsilotreta Wichard & Wang, 2017 (Odontoceridae), Palaeopsilotreta burmanica sp. nov. and P. cretacea sp. nov., redescribe the type species based on additional information, and describe features of the female, based on two specimens, one of which is embedded adjacent to a male identified as P. xiai. Males of Palaeopsilotreta bear bipectinate antennae; the antennae of the females are simple and filiform. Similarly, bipectinate antennae are present in the third species we describe, Bipectinata orientalis gen. et sp. nov., which otherwise lacks the character combinations associated with the Odontoceridae, but clearly can be assigned to the family Calamoceratidae.

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