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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 5: October 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.5.15
Page range: 587-593
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 6

A new species of dustywings from the Lower Cretaceous Hammana outcrop of Lebanon (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae)

Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Petroleum Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, Fanar, P.O. Box 26110217, Fanar–El-Maten, Lebanon
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York 10024, USA; Peretti Museum Foundation, Meggen, Switzerland
Neuroptera Coniopterygidae Lebanese amber lower Barremian fossil insects

Abstract

Libanoconis medialis sp. nov. from the Mdeyrij-Hammana outcrop of amber (Central Lebanon), is characterised, illustrated, described and its taxonomic position is discussed. Libanoconis medialis sp. nov. is the third coniopterygid from the Lebanese amber. The new species, as well as the reexamination of the holotype of L. fadiacra from Bkassine, Jezzine District, permits to clarify the presence of a trifurcate MP in the hind wing.

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