Youngest occurrence of the genus Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): A new species in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber

Authors

  • Vincent Perrichot UMR CNRS 6118 Géosciences & Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Rennes, Université Rennes 1, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France; University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
  • Michael S. Engel University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA; Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15987

Abstract

A new species of the extinct genus Microphorites Hennig (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae) is described from a single male preserved in Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) Vendean amber (NW France). Microphorites magaliae n. sp., is mostly characterized by large compound eyes, flagellomere I with base bulbous and abruptly tapering to slender apex, thorax strongly hump-backed, with numerous acrostichal and dorsocentral setae, including a pair of elongate posterior setae on the mesoscutum, mesoscutellum with two long strong setae, wing vein C terminating just beyond R4+5, and R4+5 approximately equidistant between R2+3 and M1 along wing margin. It is the latest occurrence of the genus which is otherwise known exclusively from Early to mid-Cretaceous amber of Lebanon, Spain, and southwestern France. The existing key to all species of Microphorites is modified to include the new species.

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2014-12-01

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No. 10 (2014)

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Perrichot, Vincent, and Michael S. Engel. 2014. “Youngest Occurrence of the Genus Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): A New Species in Late Cretaceous Vendean Amber”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 30-33. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15987.