Rooting down the aphid's tree – the oldest record of the Aphidomorpha lineage from Palaeozoic (Insecta: Hemiptera) |
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| Authors: | JACEK SZWEDO JEAN LAPEYRIE ANDRE NEL |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland;2. Corniche de Fontbonne, Lodève, France;3. UMR 7205, Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The new genus and species Lutevanaphis permiana gen.n. et sp.n. , represents the oldest Aphidomorpha, new superfamily Lutevanaphidoidea superfam.n. and new family Lutevanaphididae. This taxon is described from the Middle Permian of the Lodève Basin, southern France. The presence of very small Aphidomorpha in the Middle Permian contradicts the hypothesis of the ‘Lilliput effect’ that is presumed to have affected the insect fauna during the Early to Middle Triassic, after the end‐Permian crisis. Very small insects were present well before the end of the Permian; their relative rarity is attributable probably to taphonomic biases. |
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