Intriguing and Beautiful: Adamacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar Represents a New Subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)

Insects

Jan Ševčík¹  Wiesław Krzemiński²  Kornelia Skibińska³ 

[1] Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 71000 Ostrava, Czech Republic;Institute of Biology, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Podbrzezie 3, 31-054 Kraków, Poland;Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016 Kraków, Poland;

关键词: fossil insects;    Sciaroidea;    inclusions;    Mesozoic;    taxonomy;    new genus;   

DOI  :  10.3390/insects11090552

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A new fossil genus and species of Keroplatidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha, Sciaroidea), Adamacroceraadami gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. Based on morphological evidence, it is placed in a new subfamily Adamacrocerinae subfam. nov. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation characteristic of the genera of some Sciaroidea incertae sedis, as well as that of the fossil families Archizelmiridae, Antefungivoridae and Mesosciophilidae, in combination with macrocerine-like habitus and male terminalia.

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