Here are the rest of the fossil Neuropterida papers from 2015 (A bit later than intended!) and the new papers from the beginning of 2016*. As usual there are many interesting papers. The vast majority deal with species from the Mesozoic (Jurassic and Cretaceous), and all but two of the papers deal with species from the order Neuroptera (lacewings). The two exceptions are on the order Megaloptera (including one paper by me). Megaloptera (alderflies, fishflies, dobsonflies) are fairly rare in the fossil record. These papers describe species from the Cretaceous (Lower and Upper).
Neuropterida Families:
Shi, C., Winterton, S.L. & Ren, D. 2015. Phylogeny of split-footed lacewings (Neuroptera, Nymphidae), with descriptions of new Cretaceous fossil species from China. Cladistics, 31, 455-490.
Labandeira, C.C., Yang, Q., Santiago-Blay, J.A., Hotton, C.L., Monteiro, A., Wang, Y.-J., Goreva, Y., Shih, C.K., Siljeström, S., Rose, T.R., Dilcher, D.L. & Ren, D. 2016.
The evolutionary convergence of mid-mesozoic lacewings and cenozoic butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283.
Jurassic:
Khramov, A.V. & Makarkin, V.N. 2015. New fossil Osmylopsychopidae (Neuroptera) from the Early/Middle Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. Zootaxa, 4059, 115-132.
Peng, Y., Makarkin, V.N., Ren, D. 2016. Diverse new Middle Jurassic Osmylopsychopidae (Neuroptera) from China shed light on the classification of psychopsoids Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 14, 261-295.
Cretaceous:
Jepson, J.E. & Heads, S.W. 2016. Fossil Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Zootaxa, 4098, 134-144.
Bechley, G. & Makarkin, V.N. 2016. A new gigantic lacewing species (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil confirms the occurrence of Kalligrammatidae in the Americas. Cretaceous Research, 58, 135-140.
Myskowiak, J., Huang, D., Azr, D., Cai, C., Garrouste, R. & Nel, A. 2016. New lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Osmylidae, Nymphidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber and Crato Formation in Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 59, 214-227.
Myskowiak, J. & Nel. A. 2016. New antlion species (Insecta, Neuroptera, Palaeoleontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation in northeastern Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 59, 278-284.
Huang, D., Azar, D., Engel, M.S., Garrouste, R., Cai, C. & Nel, A. 2016. The first araripeneurine antlion in Burmese amber (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Cretaceous Research, 63, 1-6.
Makarkin, V.N. & Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. An interesting new species of Sisyridae (Neuroptera) from the Upper Cretaceous Taimyr amber. Cretaceous Research, 63, 170-176.
Huang, D., Azar, D., Engel, M.S., Cai, C., Garrouste, R., & Nel, A. 2016. A new genus of alderflies (Megaloptera: Sialidae) in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 64, 7-11.
Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E. & Engel, M.S. 2016. A defensive behavior and plant-insect interaction in Early Cretaceous amber – The case of the immature lacewing Hallucinochrysa diogenesi. Arthropod Structure and Development, 45, 133-139.
Eocene:
Archibald, S.B. & Makarkin, V.N. 2015. A new species of Archaeochrysa Adams (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene of Driftwood Canyon, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Entomologist, 147, 359-369.
*These are all the papers that I have come across so far, and therefore may not represent an exhaustive list. Any papers missed here will be included future posts.
