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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 1: January–February 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.11
Page range: 090–098
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A new genus and species of gall midges the tribe Winnertziini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Porricondylinae) from lower Eocene Fushun amber from China

All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection Russian Academy of Science, Shosse Podbelskogo 3, St.-Petersburg – Pushkin, 196608, Russia
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ZOYA A. FEDOTOVA

Laboratory of biocontrol, Professor, Dr. Sci. (Entomology), leading researcher

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine, A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya Str. 123, Moscow, 117647, Russia
Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St., Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK
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ANDREW J. ROSS

Principal Curator of Palaeobiology, Professor, PhD

Institute of Geosciences, University of Bonn, Bonn 53115, Germany, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Fushuniola mai Rhipidoxylomyia China new taxa Palaearctic region new records biodiversity distribution fauna

Abstract

The new taxon, Fushuniola mai Fedotova & Perkovsky, gen. et sp. nov., is described from a single female from the lower Eocene (Ypresian) Fushun amber from China. This is the second record of Cecidomyiidae known from Fushun amber. The first record is Cecidomyia bujunensis Naora. The new species is characterized by possessing flagellomeres with short neck and hair-shaped sensoria, very long mouth parts and palpi, wide head, short wings and very long apical lobes of ovipositor. It is distinctly different from all known Winnertziini by the very recurved vein R5 and very wide cells between veins C and R5. A diversity of gall midges from lower Eocene amber is presented. The new genus is close to the extant genus Rhipidoxylomyia, known from upper Eocene Rovno amber.

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