Moth flies and sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber
0106 biological sciences
QH301-705.5
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01 natural sciences
Cretaceous
New species
Burmese amber
New genera
Medicine
Psychodidae
New subfamily
Biology (General)
Entomology
DOI:
10.7717/peerj.1254
Publication Date:
2015-09-17T08:34:11Z
AUTHORS (4)
ABSTRACT
One new subfamily, four new genera and 10 new species of Psychodidae are described from Burmese amber which significantly increases our knowledge about this group in the Cretaceous. Protopsychodinae n. subfam. probably represents the oldest known ancestor of modern Psychodinae and includes three species within two genera:Datzia setosagen. et sp. n.,Datzia bispinagen. et sp. n., andMandalayia beumersorumgen. et sp. n. Sycoracinae and Phlebotominae are represented by two genera each in the studied material,Palaeoparasycorax globosusgen. et sp. n.,Palaeoparasycorax suppusgen. et sp. n.,Parasycorax simplexsp. n., andPhlebotomites aphoesp. n. andPhlebotomus vetussp. n., respectively. Bruchomyiinae is represented byNemopalpus quadrispiculatussp. n. Furthermore, one genus of an incertae sedis subfamily,Bamara groehnigen. et sp. n., is described. The systematic positions of the new taxa are discussed.
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