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Issue: Vol. 4147 No. 5: 8 Aug. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.7
Page range: 589–592
Abstract views: 78
PDF downloaded: 1

A new permopsocidan genus and species from the Late Permian of Australia (Insecta: Acercaria: Psocidiidae)

Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Prague, Czech Republic.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Psocoptera Acercaria Permopsocida gen. et sp. nov. Lopingian Permian Australia

Abstract

The psocidiid Hypopsylla belmontensis gen. et sp. nov., new psocidiid genus and species, is described and figured from the Late Permian of New South Wales in Australia. This discovery extends the knowledge on the diversity of the small order Permopsocida whose members passed the Permian-Triassic boundary and became extinct in Cretaceous.

 

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