A new plesiomorphic species of webspinner (Embiodea,Clothodidae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar |
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Affiliation: | 1. Cores and Samples Center of Land & Resources (CSCLR), Sanhe 065201, Hebei, China;2. School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, EH9 3FE Edinburgh, UK |
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Abstract: | A new Mesozoic webspinner (Embiodea) is described and figured based on a moderately well-preserved male in mid-Cretaceous (earliest Cenomanian) amber from northern Myanmar. Perissoclothoda myrrhokaris gen. et sp. nov. is the second fossil representative of the putatively primitive family Clothodidae. It differs from the Cretaceous and more recent Embiodea in several plesiomorphic characters, namely a quadrate mentum, approximately oval submentum, subgenae not meet medially (thus a ventral bridge or gula is lacking), completely symmetrical terminalia, and dimerous cerci. This new find sheds further light on the diversity and morphological disparity of fossil webspinners during the Late Mesozoic.www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:11A49D4A-4042-4AA3-858F-919E1A84B879. |
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Keywords: | Burmese amber Cenomanian Clothodidae Embioptera New species Taxonomy |
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