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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 1: February 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.1.2
Page range: 5-8
Abstract views: 89
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New Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El-Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon
Diptera Psychodidae

Abstract

Lebanese amber provides one of the most significant windows to terrestrial arthropod diversity of the Early Cretaceous (Azar, 1997; Maksoud et al., 2022). Dated to approximately ~125 Ma (lower Barremian), these amber deposits have yielded an exceptionally rich and often very well preserved palaeofauna (Ross, 2010; Granier et al., 2016; Maksoud et al., 2017). To date, about 272 insect species in 108 families have been formally described from Lebanese amber, representing a broad spectrum of Lower Cretaceous entomofaunal diversity (Maksoud & Tabakian, 2025).

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