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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 134, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105162
Keywords
Cretaceous; Myanmar amber; Myrmeleontidae; New genus; Female genitalia
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900348, 31972871]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [19YF1443000]
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A new genus and species of the lacewing family Myrmeleontidae, Xiaoleon amoena gen. et sp. nov., is reported based on a well-preserved female specimen in amber. The new species has unique characteristics and exhibits a rare pair of sclerites in females.
A new genus and species of the lacewing family Myrmeleontidae, Xiaoleon amoena gen. et sp. nov., is reported based on an exqusitely preserved female specimen from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar. The new genus is characterized by the combination of the absence of presectoral crossvein in both fore-and hind wings, the deeply bifurcated forewing CuA2, and the pectinately branched hind wing CuA. Noticeably, the female of the new species possesses a pair of large valvate sclerites on the abdominal segment 7 (interpreted as the putative gonocoxites 7), which had yet been found in Myrmeleontidae.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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