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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 6: November–December 2025
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2025-12-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.6.9
Page range: 676–678
Abstract views: 85
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A new genus for Libanoconis siberica Makarkin & Perkovsky, 2019 (Coniopterygidae: Aleuropteryginae) from the Cenomanian of northern Siberia

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 960022, Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, Denmark
Coniopterygidae Aleuropteryginae

Abstract

Dustywings (Coniopterygidae) are minute lacewings characterized by the white waxy covering their bodies and wings with relatively reduced venation. Today, the family is comprised of less than 600 species distributed across the globe (Oswald & Machado, 2018). Currently, 51 fossil species in 27 fossil extinct genera are known (see Xiao et al., 2024: table 1; Azar & Engel, 2025). Most of these are adequately described as they are fossilised in amber with clearly preserved characters.

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