Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4399 No. 4: 23 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.4.6
Page range: 563–570
Abstract views: 70
PDF downloaded: 1

The first green lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitaetsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, Berlin 10115, Germany.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Neuroptera Neuropterida Limaiinae taxonomy new genus Burmese amber

Abstract

The lacewing family Chrysopidae is here reported from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar for the first time. A new genus and species, Parabaisochrysa xingkei gen. et sp. nov., is described. The new genus belongs to the extinct subfamily Limaiinae and is characterized by the presence of three gradate series of crossveins in both fore- and hind wing, and by the MP1 coalescent with RP+MA in the hind wing.

 

References

  1. Archibald, S.B. & Makarkin, V.N. (2015) A new species of Archaeochrysa Adams (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene of Driftwood Canyon, British Columbia, Canada. Entomological Society of Canada, 147, 359–369.
    https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.53

    Aspöck, H., Aspöck, U. & Hölzel, H. (1980) Die Neuropteren Europas: eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der Systematik, Ökologie und Chorologie der Neuropteroidea (Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Planipennia) Europas. Vol. 1 & 2. Goecke & Evers, Krefeld, 495 pp. & 355 pp.

    Beutel, R.G., Friedrich, F. & Aspöck, U. (2010a) The larval head of Nevrorthidae and the phylogeny of Neuroptera (Insecta). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 158, 533–562.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00560.x

    Beutel, R.G., Zimmermann, D., Krauss, M., Randolf, S. & Wipfler, B. (2010b) Head morphology of Osmylus fulvicephalus (Osmylidae, Neuroptera) and its phylogenetic implications. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 10, 311–329.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-010-0024-0

    Breitkreuz, L.C.V., Winterton S.L. & Engel, M.S. (2017) Wing tracheation in Chrysopidae and other Neuropterida (Insecta): a resolution of the confusion about vein fusion. American Museum Novitates, 3890, 1–44.

    Brooks, S.J. & Barnard, P.C. (1990) The green lacewings of the world: a generic review (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Entomology, 59, 117–286.

    Jepson, J.E., Makarkin, V.N. & Coram, R.A. (2012) Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Cretaceous Research, 34, 31–47.

    Kania, I., Wang, B. & Szwedo, J. (2015) Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 52, 522–530.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.03.002

    Khramov, A.V., Liu, Q., Zhang, H. & Jarzembowski, E.A. (2016) Early green lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the Jurassic of China and Kazakhstan. Papers in Palaeontology, 2, 25–39.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1024

    Kukalová-Peck, J. & Lawrence, J.F. (2004) Relationships among coleopteran suborders and major endoneopteran lineages: evidence from hind wing characters. European Journal of Entomology, 101, 95–144.
    https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2004.018

    Makarkin, V.N. & Archibald, S.B. (2013) A diverse new assemblage of Green Lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) from the Early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, Western North America. Journal of Paleontology, 87, 123–146.
    https://doi.org/10.1666/12-052R.1

    Makarkin, V.N. (1994) Upper Cretaceous Neuroptera from Russia and Kazakhstan. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.), 30, 283–292.

    Makarkin, V.N. (1997) Fossil Neuroptera of the Lower Cretaceous of Baisa, East Siberia. Part 3. Chrysopidae. Spixiana, 20, 107–118.

    Martins-Neto, R.G. & Vulcano, M.A. (1989) Neurópteros (Insecta: Planipennia) da Formaçao Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil. I – Família Chrysopidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 60, 189–201.

    Martynov, A.V. (1927) Jurassic fossil insects from Turkestan. 7. Some Odonata, Neuroptera, Thysanoptera. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, 6, 757–768.

    Nel, A., Delclòs, X. & Hutin, A. (2005) Mesozoic chrysopid-like Planipennia: a phylogenetic approach (Insecta: Neuroptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, New Series, 41, 29–68.

    Panfilov, D.V. (1980) New representatives of lacewings (Neuroptera) from the Jurassic of Karatau. In: Dolin, V.G., Panfilov, D.V., Ponomarenko, A.G. & Pritykina, L.N. (Eds.), Fossil insects of the Mesozoic. Akademiya Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR, Institut Zoologii, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, pp. 82–111.

    Randolf, S., Zimmermann, D. & Aspöck, U. (2014) Head anatomy of adult Nevrorthus apatelios and basal splitting events in Neuroptera (Neuroptera: Nevrorthidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 72, 111–136.

    Ren, D. & Guo, Z.G. (1996) On the new fossil genera and species of Neuroptera (Insecta) from the Late Jurassic of northeast China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 21, 461–479.

    Shi, G., Grimaldi, D.A., Harlow, G.E., Wang, J., Wang, J., Yang, M., Lei, W., Li, Q. & Li, X. (2012) Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U-Pb dating of zircons. Cretaceous Research, 37, 155–163.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.014

    Tauber, C.A., Tauber, M.J. & Albuquerque, G.S. (2014) Debris-Carrying in Larval Chrysopidae: Unraveling Its Evolutionary History. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 107, 295–314.
    https://doi.org/10.1603/AN13163

    Wang, Y.Y., Liu, X.Y., Garzón-Orduña, I.J., Winterton, S.L., Yan, Y., Aspöck, U., Aspöck, H. & Yang, D. (2017) Mitochondrial phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of Neuropterida. Cladistics, 33, 617–636.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12186

    Willmann, R. & Brooks, S.J. (1991) Insekten aus der Fur-Formation von Dänemark (Moler, ob. Paleozän / unt. Eozän?). 6. Chrysopidae (Neuroptera). Meyniana, 43, 125–135.

    Winterton, S.L., Hardy, N.B. & Wiegmann, B.M. (2010) On wings of lace: phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimates of Neuropterida (Insecta) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Entomology, 35, 349–378.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00521.x

    Zimmermann, D., Randolf, S., Metscher, B.D. & Aspöck, U. (2011) The function and phylogenetic implications of the tentorium in adult Neuroptera (Insecta). Arthropod Structure & Development, 40, 571–582.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2011.06.003