Fossil Neuropterid Papers Jan-Aug 2015

The first half of 2015 has seen many interesting papers on fossil Neuropterida (Neuroptera, Raphidioptera, Megaloptera) published*. These papers include studies on neuropterid families: phylogenies (including both extant and fossil taxa) of Sialidae (Megaloptera) and Mantispidae (Neuroptera), and a review of the fossil record of Mantispidae. The majority of the published papers deal with descriptions of new taxa. New fossil neuropterids are described from the Permian, Jurassic, many from the Cretaceous, and Eocene.

Below is a list of these papers, divided into sections of Neuropterida families and geological ages of the described specimens.

Neuropterida families:

Liu, X., Hayashi, F., & Yang, D. 2015. Phylogeny of the family Sialidae (Insecta: Megaloptera) inferred from morphological data, with implications for generic classification and historical biogeography. Cladisitics, 31, 18-49.

Liu, X., Winterton, S.L., Wu, C., Piper, R., & Ohl, M. 2015. A new genus of mantidflies discovered in the Oriental region, with a higher‐level phylogeny of Mantispidae (Neuroptera) using DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Entomology, 40, 183-206.

Jepson, J.E. 2015. A review of the current state of knowledge of fossil Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). Zootaxa, 3964, 419-432.

Permian:

Prokop, J., Fernandes, F.R., Lapeyrie, J., & Nel, A., 2015. Discovery of the first lacewings (Neuroptera: Permithonidae) from the Guadalupian of the Lodève Basin (Southern France). Geobios, 48, 263-270.

Jurassic:

Khramov, A.V. 2015. Jurassic beaded lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal, 49, 26-35.

Liu, Q., Khramov, A.V., & Zhang, H. 2015. A new species of Kalligramma Walther, 1904 (Insecta, Neuroptera, Kalligrammatidae) from the Middle–Upper Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Alcheringa, 39. 438-442.

Lü, Y.,  Liu, X., & Ren, D. First record of the fossil snakefly genus Mesoraphidia (Insecta: Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3999,560-570.

Cretaceous:

Huang, D., Azar, D., Cai, C., Garrouste, R., & Nel., A. 2015. The first Mesozoic pleasing lacewing (Neuroptera: Dilaridae). Cretaceous Research, 56, 274-277.

Makarkin, V.N. 2015. A new genus of the mantispid-like Paraberothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Burmese amber, with special consideration of its probasitarsus spine-like setation. Zootaxa, 4007, 327-342.

Makarkin, V.N., & Khramov, A.V. 2015. A new fossil species of snakeflies (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, with notes on Turonian Neuropterida. Cretaceous Research, 52, 407-415.

Myskowiak, J., Escuille, F., & Nel, A. 2015. A new Osmylidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation in Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 54, 27-33.

Shi, C., Ohl, M., Wunderlich, J., & Ren, D. 2015. A remarkable new genus of Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from Cretaceous amber of Myanmar and its implications on raptorial foreleg evolution in Mantispidae. Cretaceous Research, 52, 416-422.

  • Makarkin, V.N. 2015. A remarkable new genus of Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from Cretaceous amber of Myanmar and its implications on raptorial foreleg evolution in Mantispidae: A comment. Cretaceous Research, 52, 416-422
  • Shi, C., Ohl, M., Wunderlich, J., & Ren, D. 2015. A remarkable new genus of Mantispidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from Cretaceous amber of Myanmar and its implications on raptorial foreleg evolution in Mantispidae: Reply to the comment. Cretaceous Research, 52, 425-426.

Perkovsky, E.E., & Makarkin, V.N. 2015. First confirmation of spongillaflies (Neuroptera: Sisyridae) from the Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research, 56, 363-371.

Yang, Q, Makarkin, V.N., Shih, C., & Ren, D. 2015. New Aetheogrammatidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China. Cretaceous Research, 55, 25-31.

Eocene:

Makarkin, V.N., & Ohl, M. 2015. An important new fossil genus of Berothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Baltic amber. Zootaxa, 3946, 401-415.

*These are all the papers that I have come across so far this year, and therefore may not represent an exhaustive list. Any papers missed here will be included in the “Fossil Neuropterid Papers Sep-Dec 2015” blog post.

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