A new twisted-wing parasitoid from mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (Strepsiptera)

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• 作者：Michael S. Engel^a ; ^{msengel@ku.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Diying Huang^b ; ^{dyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Laura C.V. Breitkreuz^a ; ^{l-breitkreuz@ku.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Dany Azar^c ; ^{azar@mnhn.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Chenyang Cai^b ; Mabel Alvarado^a ; ^{malvarado@ku.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Burmese amber ; Cenomanian ; Mesozoic ; Parasitoidism ; Strepsiptera ; Taxonomy
• 刊名：Cretaceous Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：58
• 期：Complete
• 页码：160-167
• 全文大小：1372 K

文摘

A second Mesozoic twisted-wing parasite (Strepsiptera) is described and figured based on an exceptionally well-preserved male in mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber from northern Myanmar. Phthanoxenos nervosus Engel and Huang, gen. et sp. nov., is distinguished from other strepsipteran lineages, particularly the contemporaneous Cretostylops engeli Grimaldi and Kathirithamby, also in Burmese amber, and Protoxenos janzeni Pohl et al. in mid-Eocene Baltic amber, and assigned to a new family, Phthanoxenidae Engel and Huang, fam. nov. Phthanoxenos exhibit features indicative of a more primitive phylogenetic position than Cretostylopidae but still more derived than Protoxenidae. Brief remarks are made on the geological history of the Strepsiptera.