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Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
- Source :
- Cretaceous Research. 84:525-532
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Apsilocephalidae is an enigmatic dipteran family erected by Nagatomi et al. (1991), including three extant genera and three additional extinct genera from the Eocene Baltic amber, Eocene Florissant, and mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. We describe herein two new taxa, Myanmarpsilocephala grimaldii gen. et sp. nov. and Irwinimyia spinosa gen. et sp. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The female genitalia of Myanmarpsilocephala gen. nov. and male genitalia of Irwinimyia gen. nov. are described and illustrated. The distribution of all Apsilocephalidae species and a key to all genera of Apsilocephalidae is provided. The described diversity of Apsilocephalidae in Burmese amber strongly suggests that apsilocephalid flies diversified at least by the mid-Cretaceous.
Details
- ISSN :
- 01956671
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cretaceous Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........69e4ed26b26c19fbd63a963e40b19db4
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.026