Title
First fossil blood sucking Psychodidae in South America: A sycoracine moth fly (Insecta: Diptera) in the middle Miocene Amazonian amber
Date Issued
01 May 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Petrulevičius J.F.
Nel A.
De Franceschi D.
Goillot C.
Antoine P.O.
Flynn J.J.
Abstract
Sycorax peruensis sp.n. is the first blood sucking fossil Psychodidae in South America. The new species mainly differs from all recent Neotropical Sycoracinae in its number of antennal segments. It is described from the middle Miocene Western Amazonian amber, which included an intertropical entomofauna previous to the land connection with Central and North America that occurred in the latest MiocenePliocene. Insects from this material are diverse with normal bias for amber inclusions of Diptera and Hymenoptera and small-sized specimens. © 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.
Start page
87
End page
96
Volume
42
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Paleontología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84866282893
Source
Insect Systematics and Evolution
ISSN of the container
1399560X
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus