New Genera and Species of Psychodoid Flies from the Lower Cretaceous Amber Lebanon |
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| Authors: | Dany Azar ré Nel Michel Solignac Jean-Claude Paicheler & Françoise Bouchet |
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| Institution: | Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France,;Laboratoire de Population, Génétique et Evolution, CNRS, F-91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France,;Laboratoire de Paléoparasitologie, CNRS URA 1415, UFR de Pharmacie, 51 rue Cq-Jay, F-51100 Reims, France |
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| Abstract: | Until now, only two Psychodoidea were known from Lebanese amber. We describe two new genera and species of Phlebotomidae ( Mesophlebotomites hennigi gen. et sp. nov., Libanophlebotomus lutfallahi gen. et sp. nov.) and four new genera with six new species of Psychodidae ( Paleopsychoda solignaci gen. et sp. nov., Paleopsychoda jacquelinae sp. nov., Protopsychoda nadiae gen. et sp. nov., Protopsychoda hammanaensis sp. nov., Libanopsychoda abillamai gen. et sp. nov., Cretapsychoda inexpectata gen. et sp. nov.) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Hammana/Mdeirij, Lebanon. These fossils are included in a phylogenetic analysis of the subfamilies of Psychodoidea. This superfamily was probably as diverse in the Early Cretaceous as now. |
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