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Two new genera of Apsilocephalidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Authors :
Qingqing Zhang
Xuankun Li
Bingqing Xu
Bo Wang
David K. Yeates
Yimeng Zhu
Ruiqi Lu
Source :
Cretaceous Research. 84:525-532
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2018.

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