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The first Psychodidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the lower Eocene Fushun amber of China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Bo Wang ,
Haichun Zhang  and
Dany Azar
Bo Wang
Affiliation:
1State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China, ,
Haichun Zhang
Affiliation:
1State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China, ,
Dany Azar
Affiliation:
2Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Biology, Fana-Matn, P.O. Box 26110217, Lebanon,
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Abstract

Trichomyia duckhousei, a new species belonging to Psychodidae Trichomyiinae, is characterized and described based on a well-preserved specimen from the lower Eocene Fushun amber of China. It shares some similarities with Trichomyia of Group B, but has some features present in the fossil record but not in Recent taxa, such as non-eccentric flagellomeres and long legs. This discovery represents the first Trichomyiinae (Psychodidae) from the Fushun amber, and adds more evidence on the very high palaeodiversity of the psychodids since at least the middle Cretaceous. An updated check list of fossil Trichomyiinae is given.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 85 , Issue 6 , November 2011 , pp. 1154 - 1159
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