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Issue: Vol. 1 No. 1: December 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-28
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.1.1.8
Page range: 58–64
Abstract views: 203
PDF downloaded: 3

First lepidopsocid from the mid Miocene Dominican amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Lepidopsocidae)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, People’s Republic of China.
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China.
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China. Lebanese University, Faculty of Science II, Fanar, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El - Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon.
Psocodea Dominican Republic Echmepteryx Lepidopsocinae Psocoptera fossil insects

Abstract

Lepidopsocids are well diversified in recent fauna, but fossil records remain very scarce. Echmepteryx (Loxopholia) dominicanus sp. nov. from Dominican amber is herein described and illustrated. This species is attributed to subfamily Lepidopsocinae Enderlein, 1903 and assigned to genus Echmepteryx Aaron, 1886. This new record is the second oldest lepidopsocid. It is also the first species in this family to be described from Dominican amber and the only fossil record of Lepidopsocinae.

 

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