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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 4: December 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-12-31
DOI: 10.11646/mesozoic.2.4.6
Page range: 356–367
Abstract views: 48
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New genera and species of the lacewing family Babinskaiidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum, 9 Shuanghe Middle Road, Beijing 100023, China
Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Insecta Neuroptera Neuropterida Babinskaiidae Kachin amber taxonomy Cretaceous

Abstract

The family Babinskaiidae is one of the major lineages of the superfamily Myrmeleontoidea from the Cretaceous. It is exceptionally diverse in species and morphology from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar. Here, we describe three new species belonging to two new genera of Babinskaiidae, namely Pseudelectrobabinskaia suae gen. et sp. nov., Pseudelectrobabinskaia confusa gen. et sp. nov., and Microbabinskaia delicatula gen. et sp. nov. Pseudelectrobabinskaia gen. nov. appears to be similar to Electrobabinskaia Lu, Zhang & Liu, 2017, and Parababinskaia Makarkin, Heads & Wedmann, 2017, in the number of presectoral crossveins and the origin of RP+MA. Microbabinskaia gen. nov. resembles Pseudobabinskaia Makarkin, Heads & Wedmann, 2017, in its simplified wing venation. Electrobabinskaia neli Jouault, 2022, is transferred to Pseudelectrobabinskaia gen. nov.

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