Diverse barklice (Psocodea) from Late Cretaceous Vendean amber

Authors

  • Dany Azar Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, Fanar, Fanar - Matn – P.O. Box 26110217, Lebanon
  • André Nel UMR CNRS 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, Entomologie, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France
  • Vincent Perrichot UMR CNRS 6118 Géosciences & Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Rennes, Université Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France; University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15983

Abstract

The fossil psocodeans from Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber of Vendée, in northwestern France, are studied. Two new genera and three new species are described and illustrated, as Proprionoglaris axioperierga n. sp. (Archaeatropidae), Scocompus atelisus n. gen. and sp. (uncertain family within the Amphientometae), and Mesopsocoides dupei n. gen. and sp. (earliest fossil record of the Mesopsocidae). The new fossils are distinguished from their congeners, and their respective systematic placement is discussed. Other fragmentary fossil psocodeans from the same outcrop are illustrated and discussed. Keywords: Insecta, Psocoptera, Trogiomorpha, Troctomorpha, Psocomorpha, Cretaceous

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2014-12-01

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No. 10 (2014)

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Azar, Dany, André Nel, and Vincent Perrichot. 2014. “Diverse Barklice (Psocodea) from Late Cretaceous Vendean Amber”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 9-15. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15983.