A new genus of dustywings (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber

Authors

  • Vincent Perrichot UMR CNRS 6118 Géosciences and Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Rennes, Université Rennes 1, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France; 2 University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
  • Romain Garrouste Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
  • Dany Azar Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, Fanar - Matn – P.O. Box 26110217, Lebanon
  • André Nel Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15986

Abstract

A new genus and species of Coniopterygidae is described from a female preserved in Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber of Vendée, in northwestern France. Garnaconis dupeorum Perrichot & Nel, n. gen. and sp., displays intermixing features between Aleuropteryginae and Coniopteryginae as currently defined, making its accurate phylogenetic placement difficult. It is tentatively placed in the Aleuropteryginae. A new practical key to the Mesozoic genera of dustywings is proposed.

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2014-12-01

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No. 10 (2014)

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Copyright (c) 2014 Vincent Perrichot, Romain Garrouste, Dany Azar, André Nel

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Perrichot, Vincent, Romain Garrouste, Dany Azar, and André Nel. 2014. “A New Genus of Dustywings (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae) in Late Cretaceous Vendean Amber”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 25-29. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15986.