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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 1: February 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.1.8
Page range: 70-75
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 4

A new genus of paradoxosisyrine lacewings from mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber (Neuroptera: Sisyridae)

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, New York 10024, USA; Dr Peretti Museum Foundation and GRS Gemresearch Swisslab AG, 3045 Meggen, Switzerland
Dr Peretti Museum Foundation and GRS Gemresearch Swisslab AG, 3045 Meggen, Switzerland
amber Myanmar nectarivory pollination sponge lacewings Neuroptera Sisyridae

Abstract

The first siphonate Neuroptera are discovered from the Hkamti (Sagaing) mines of mid-Cretaceous amber in northern Myanmar. Two adults of Sisyridae (spongilla-flies or spongilla lacewings) were located in a single piece and belong to a new paradoxosisyrine genus near to Sidorchukatia Khramov. The new genus differs from the latter in wing venation, antennal structure, and other details of setation. Cherasisyra elegans gen. et sp. nov. is described and figured and general comments are made regarding the potential biology of Paradoxosisyrinae.

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