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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 1: February 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.1.3
Page range: 72-75
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of dustywings (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber: new

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université des Antilles, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France; Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution (UMR 5554), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France; Géosciences Rennes (UMR 6118), Université de Rennes, CNRS, F-35000 Rennes, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université des Antilles, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France; Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024, USA
Aleuropteryginae Fontenelleini Burmese amber Taxonomy Systematic Neuroptera Coniopterygidae

Abstract

speciesThe family Coniopterygidae, commonly known as dustywings, occupies a distinctive niche within the Neuroptera, as they are the smallest members of this order (Grimaldi & Engel, 2005; Engel et al., 2018). Characterized by forewing lengths seldom surpassing 5 mm, with a few exceptions (Liu & Lu, 2017), this family has achieved a remarkable speciosity, with approximately 570 extant species scattered across diverse habitats globally (Oswald & Machado, 2018).

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