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First fossil horsefly (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Miocene Mexican amber |
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| Authors: | Jonina Strelow Mónica M Solórzano Kraemer Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal Jes Rust |
| Institution: | 1. Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Pal?ontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115, Bonn, Germany 2. Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 3. Instituto de Ecología, A.C, Antigua Carretera a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, Xalapa, 91070, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Abstract: | The fossil record of the Tabanidae is sparse when compared with other families of Diptera. Even in amber they are rare, probably because of their size and specific flight behavior. Horseflies from amber are only known from Cretaceous age New Jersey amber as well as from the Tertiary age Baltic and Dominican amber, but are herein described for the first time, with Stenotabanus oleariorum sp. n., from Mexican amber. The new species is compared to the fossil horseflies of the same genus S. brodzinskyi Lane, Poinar and Fairchild 1988 and S. woodruffi Lane and Fairchild 1989 from Dominican amber. |
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