The beetle-like Palaeozoic and Mesozoic roachoids of the so-called “umenocoleoid” lineage (Dictyoptera: Ponopterixidae fam. nov.) |
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Institution: | 1. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France;2. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Vini?ná 7, CZ-128 44, Praha 2, Czech Republic;3. Corniche de Fontbonne, 34700 Lodève, France;4. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Embankment, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
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Abstract: | The position of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic roachoids and their relationships to crown-group Dictyoptera is an unresolved problem of insect systematics since Hennig's time. This contribution presents new data based on the wing venation of the Early Cretaceous group Cratovitismioidea (so-called “Umenocoleoidea”) supplemented with the discovery of the first Late Palaeozoic representative. As Umenocoleus, type genus of the Umenocoleidae, is considered as a Coleopterida, the roachoids currently included in the Umenocoleidae are transferred to the new family Ponopterixidae, in the new superfamily Cratovitismioidea. Permoponopterix lodevensis, a new ponopterixid genus and species, is described as the oldest representative of this superfamily, from the Middle Permian of the South of France. A new species Ponopterix burkhardi is described from the Lower Cretaceous of Crato Formation in Brazil. Convergent adaptations of tegmina in Coleopterida, Protelytroptera and Cratovitismioidea are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Insecta Umenocoleoidea Umenocoleidae Ponopterixidae Cratovitismioidea superfam nov Middle Permian Lower Cretaceous Forewing adaptations Insecta Umenocoleoidea Umenocoleidae Ponopterixidae Cratovitismioidea superfam nov Permien moyen Crétacé inférieur Adaptations de la tegmina |
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