Moth flies and sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber

• DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1254
• Publication Date: 2015-09-17T08:34:11Z
• Authors: Frauke Stebner; Mónica M. Solórza...; Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal; Rüdiger Wagner
• Keywords: 0106 biological sciences; QH301-705.5; R; 01 natural sciences; Cretaceous; New species; Burmese amber; New genera; Medicine; Psychodidae; New subfamily; Biology (General); Entomology

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.