Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 2897 No. 1: 30 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2897.1.5
Page range: 51–56
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 21

A new lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

Paleontological Institute, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District; Beijing 100048; China
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District; Beijing 100048; China
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District; Beijing 100048; China
Neuroptera Leptolingia Jiulongshan Formation new species Daohugou

Abstract

A new species of the family Grammolingiidae (Neuroptera) (Leptolingia imminuta sp. nov.) is described from Daohugou village (Middle Jurassic), Inner Mongolia, China. In this new species, MA forks at the same level as the separation of Rs2 from Rs, close to the middle of forewing, this structure of MA is peculiar in Grammolingiidae and is different from that of all other known species. Moreover, this new species is the smallest species known in the family Grammolingiidae (30 mm wing span).

References

  1. Chen, W., Ji, Q., Liu, D.Y., Zhang, Y., Song, B. & Liu, X.Y. (2004) Isotope geochronology of the fossil-bearing beds in the Daohugou, Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia. Geological Bulletin of China, 23, 1165–1169 [in Chinese, English summary].

    Gao, K.Q. & Ren, D. (2006) Radiometric dating of Ignimbrite from Inner Mongolia provides no indication of a Post–Middle Jurassic Age for the Daohugou Bed. Acta Geologica Sinica, 80, 41–45.

    He, H.Y., Wang, X.L., Zhou, Z.H., Zhu, R.X., Jin, F., Wang, F., Ding, X. & Boven, A. (2005) Reply on comment by Liu and Liu on ‘‘40Ar/39Ar dating of ignimbrite from Inner Mongolia, northeastern China, indicates a post-Middle Jurassic age for the overlying Daohugou Bed’’. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L12315, doi: 10.1029/2005GL022787.

    Ji, Q., Liu, Y.Q., Chen, W., Ji, S.A., Lv, J.C., You, H.L. & Yuan, C.X. (2005) On the geological age of Daohugou Biota. Geological Review, 51, 609–612 [in Chinese, English summary].

    Khramov, A.V. (2010) A New Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal, 44, 188–191.

    Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Nature per Regna Tria Nature, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis (tenth edn, revised). Salviae, Holmiae, Sweden, 824pp.

    Liu, Y.Q., Liu, Y.X., Li, P.X., Zhang, H., Zhang, L.J., Li, Y. & Xia, H.D. (2004) Daohugou biota-bearing lithostratigraphic succession on the southeastern margin of the Ningcheng Basin, Inner Mongolia, and its geochronology. Geological Bulletin of China, 23(12), 1180–1187 [in Chinese, English summary].

    Liu, Y.Q., Liu, Y.X., Ji, S.A. & Yang, Z.Q. (2006) U–Pb Zircon age for the Daohugou biota at Ningcheng of Inner Mongolia and comments on related issues. Chinese Science Bulletin, 51, 2634–2644 [in Chinese with English abstract].

    Makarkin, V.N., Ren, D. & Yang, Q. (2009) Two new species of Kalligrammatidae (Neuroptera) from the Jurassic of China, with comments on venational homologies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 102, 964–969.

    Peng, Y.Y., Makarkin, V.N., Yang, Q. & Ren, D. (2010) A new silky lacewing (Neuroptera: Psychopsidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Monogolia, China. Zootaxa, 2663, 59–67.

    Ren, D. (2002) A new lacewing family (Neuroptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. Entomologia Sinica, 9, 53–67.

    Ren, D., Engel, M.S., & Lu, W. (2002) New giant lacewings from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Neuroptera: Polystoechotidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 75, 188–193.

    Ren, D., Gao, K.Q., Guo, Z.G., Ji, S.A., Tan, J.J. & Song, Z. (2002) Stratigraphic division of the Jurassic in the Daohugou Area, Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia. Geological Bulletin of China, 21, 584–591 [in Chinese, English summary].

    Ren, D. & Engel, M.S. (2007) A split-footed lacewing and two epiosmylines from the Jurassic of China (Neuroptera). Annales Zoologici, 57, 211–219.

    Shi, C.F., Yang, Q. & Ren, D. (2011) Two new fossil lacewing species from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae). Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 85, 801–808.

    Wang, X.L., Zhou, Z.H., He, H.Y., Jin, F., Wang, Y.Q., Zhang, J.Y., Wang, Y., Xu, X. & Zhang, F.C. (2005) Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia. Chinese Science Bulletin, 50(19), 2127–2135.

    Wang, Y.J., Liu, Z.Q. & Ren, D. (2009) A new fossil lacewing genus from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China (Neuroptera: Osmylidae). Zootaxa, 2034, 65–68.

    Wang, Y.J., Liu, Z.Q., Shih, C.K., Zhao, Y.Y., Engel, M.S. & Ren, D. (2010) Ancient pinnate leaf mimesis among lacewings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 16212–16215.