The First Twisted-Wing Parasitoids (Insecta: Strepsiptera) from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado
| العنوان: | The First Twisted-Wing Parasitoids (Insecta: Strepsiptera) from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado |
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| المؤلفون: | Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, Gwen S. Antell |
| المصدر: | Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 57:165-174 |
| بيانات النشر: | Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Strepsiptera, media_common.quotation_subject, Plant Science, Insect, Biology, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Parasitoid, Myrmecolacidae, Cladistics, 03 medical and health sciences, Aedeagus, Paleontology, 030104 developmental biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Species richness, Green River Formation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, media_common |
| الوصف: | Strepsiptera is a clade of entomophagous parasitoid insects with fewer than 30 previously reported fossils. Two new species of Caenocholax (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) described here represent the first reported adult strepsipterans preserved as organic compression fossils. Their occurrence in the Early Eocene (c. 50 Ma) Green River Formation (Colorado, USA) is the northernmost New World record of Myrmecolacidae and the oldest record of Caenocholax. Caenocholax barkleyi sp. nov. and Caenocholax palusaxus sp. nov. are each known from one adult male. The aedeagus of C. barkleyi sp. nov. lacks a median projection and terminates in two hooks, an apomorphy of the species. Caenocholax palusaxus sp. nov. has distinctly intermediate wing-vein density and a larger ratio of antennomere 6 to antennomere 7 than any other species of Caenocholax. The fossils reported here expand the known insect biota of the formation in taxonomic richness as well as the fossil record of Strepsiptera in space and time. Moreover, the Eocene specimens hint at an unappreciated fossil diversity of endoparasitic insects. |
| تدمد: | 2162-4135 0079-032X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1d7dd0b9e31dee9a807a887e8af18195 https://doi.org/10.3374/014.057.0204 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1d7dd0b9e31dee9a807a887e8af18195 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21624135 0079032X |
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