A new earwigfly from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Mecoptera: Meropeidae)

被引：11
作者：
Zhao, Xiangdong [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Qingqing [2 ,3 ]
Jarzembowski, Edmund A. [2 ,4 ]
Chen, Lei [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Bo [2 ,5 ]
机构：
[1] Shandong Univ Sci & Technol, Qingdao 266510, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[4] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Earth Sci, London SW7 5BD, England
[5] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Zool, Key Lab Zool Systemat & Evolut, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
来源：
CRETACEOUS RESEARCH | 2016年 / 66卷
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Scorpionflies; Meropeidae; Burmomerope; Burmese amber; Cretaceous; TUBER NEWMAN MECOPTERA; RECORDS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.cretres.2016.06.008
中图分类号：
P5 [地质学];
学科分类号：
0709 ; 081803 ;
摘要：
A new species of Meropeidae (earwigfly) is described and figured based on an exceptionally well-preserved individual in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Burmomerope clara Zhao and Wang, sp. nov. is distinguished from the type species B. eureka Grimaldi and Engel, 2013 by presence of broader wings with six longitudinal veins in radial sector and seven in medial field, CuA with two terminal branches, and long setae on the anterior margin of the wing. A detailed comparison of the forewings venation in all fossil and extant species is given. The new find is the third fossil species of Meropeidae and also the first fossil female to be described. The female genital structure of B. clara sp. nov. is remarkably similar to that of extant species, revealing 100 million years of morphological conservatism, and thus highlighting the antiquity of the group. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：136 / 140
页数：5
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