New psychodid flies from the Upper Cretaceous Yantardakh amber and Eocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae)

Four new psychodid flies, Yantarpsychodus szadziewskii gen. et sp. nov., Sakhalinopsychoda krzeminskii gen. et sp. nov., Sakhalinopericoma russiaensis gen. et sp. nov., and Tonnoira sakhalinensis sp. nov. are characterised, illustrated and described from the Late Cretaceous Santonian Yantardakh ambe...

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Published in:Palaeoentomology
Main Authors: AZAR, DANY, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Magnolia press 2020
Subjects:
Diptera
Psychodidae
Psychodinae
Russia
Taimyr
fossil insect
gen. et sp. nov.
Sakhalin
Yantardakh
Santonian
mid-Eocene
Online Access:https://www.mapress.com/j/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.3.5.8
https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.5.8
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Summary:Four new psychodid flies, Yantarpsychodus szadziewskii gen. et sp. nov., Sakhalinopsychoda krzeminskii gen. et sp. nov., Sakhalinopericoma russiaensis gen. et sp. nov., and Tonnoira sakhalinensis sp. nov. are characterised, illustrated and described from the Late Cretaceous Santonian Yantardakh amber and the Paleogene mid-Eocene Sakhalin amber. These newly described taxa are the first studied representatives of the Psychodidae from Yantardakh and Sakhalin fossil resins.

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