{"title":"Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) characteristics of ancient amber artifacts of the Han Dynasty from Hunan, China","authors":"QI Liu, Yingjie Yuan, Yanhe Zhang, X. Qin, Yanyan Yu, Hui Wang, NING-NING Xu","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.8","url":null,"abstract":"Here we analyze four ancient amber artifacts of the Han Dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE) by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to reveal their origins. The FTIR results showed the presence of the Baltic shoulder band between 1210–1150 cm-1 and the weak absorption peak near 888 cm-1, so all amber artifacts analyzed here can be classified as succinite originating from the Baltic Sea area (or also Bitterfield or Ukrainian ambers which are Baltic amber coevals). Ancient amber could have been traded from the Baltic area to the Mediterranean via the amber road, and then to the East Asia along the Silk Road. Such exotic materials represent a key for the study of long-distance trade across cultures during ancient times. Very few ancient amber samples excavated in China have been analyzed scientifically so far, and more work is required.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41625271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
D. Azar, Mounir Maalouf, Sibelle Maksoud
{"title":"Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)","authors":"D. Azar, Mounir Maalouf, Sibelle Maksoud","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"Libanophlebotomites ramyi gen. et sp. nov. is characterised, illustrated, and described from the lower Barremian amber of Qanat Bakish (Baskinta, Lebanon). It represents the first phlebotomine fly with slightly ellipsoid head without bump on occiput, round wing tip, and legs very slightly shorter than body length. The discovery of this Cretaceous psychodid fly improves our knowledge of the palaeobiodiversity of sandflies.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.4
R. Wagner, P. Agnihotri, Hukam Singh
{"title":"A new species of Sycorax (Sycoracinae: Psychodidae) from the Lower Eocene amber of Tadkeshwar, Gujarat, India","authors":"R. Wagner, P. Agnihotri, Hukam Singh","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"A new species Sycorax longistyla has been recovered in amber from the Tadkeshwar Lignite Mine, Cambay Basin, Gujarat. It belongs to the Sycoracinae, a subfamily of tiny flies, some of which prey on amphibian blood, well-preserved in the Early Eocene Cambay amber. Females of most species have functional mandibles. The new species is distinguished from the extant and extinct representatives by possessing an elongate tubular gonocoxite with a large internal lobe, the gonostylus is curved and longer than the gonocoxite and bears a strong apical spine 0.6 times the length of the gonostylus. The species occurred in sludge-based peat bog spring habitats that existed in the Early Eocene tropical angiosperm Cambay forest.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44244956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.5
Xiao Teng
{"title":"A morphological re-study of three spinicaudatan species from the Middle–Upper Jurassic of Gansu Province, northwestern China","authors":"Xiao Teng","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"By using scanning electron microscopy, the type materials of Euestheria shandanensis Chen in Zhang et al., 1976, Euestheria jingyuanensis Chen in Zhang et al., 1976 and Sinokontikia lianmuqinensis Wang, 1985 from the Middle–Upper Jurassic of Gansu Province were re-examined. As a result, some critical characters of taxonomic value were revealed: 1) Euestheria shandanensis has typical Triglypta ornamentation on its carapace, and should be assigned to the genus Triglypta Wang, 1984; 2) Euestheria jingyuanensis closely resembles Sinokontikia (Novojilov, 1958) in ornamentation, which is characterized by the very fine reticulation on the dorsal part of the carapace, and tubercles ornamented on growth bands in the ventral part of the carapace. The tubercles are gradually changed from the thick, bulge mesh wall. It probably implies that Euestheria jingyuanensis and Sinokontikia share the same ancestor.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":"63 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41261771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.3
C. Jouault, Helmut Tischlinger, M. Henrotay, A. Nel
{"title":"Wing coloration patterns in the Early Jurassic dragonflies as potential indicator of increasing predation pressure from insectivorous reptiles","authors":"C. Jouault, Helmut Tischlinger, M. Henrotay, A. Nel","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"Wing coloration is a very ancient feature among insects. Even the wings of the oldest known Pterygota showed transverse colored bands involved in a putative disruptive function. However, no evidence of wing coloration in the representatives of the superorder Odonatoptera is recorded before the latest Triassic. These were the only insect flying-predators until the pterosaurs began their diversification. Here we argue that the situation dramatically changed in the Early Jurassic, with the simultaneous appearance of Odonata with patterns of coloration in phylogenetically distant clades. It is especially the case in the Heterophlebiidae, a small family closely related to the Anisoptera, in which we could record no less than five different patterns of coloration in the same rather small area of North-Western Europe. At the same time and in the same area, small potentially insectivorous pterosaurs greatly diversified. The increase of the predation pressure on the Odonata is the most probable cause of the appearance of patterns of colored spots and bands on the dragonfly wings at that time. In the period between the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, the number of Odonata with spots and bands of color on wings dramatically increased, we assume in relation to the predation pressure due to an increasing diversification of insectivorous pterosaurs, but also small feathered dinosaurs and birds.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-08-15DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.2
Gang Li
{"title":"SEM morphological study of the Late Triassic clam shrimp Shipingia hebaozhaiensis (Spinicaudata, Crustacea) from Yunnan, southwestern China","authors":"Gang Li","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"A re-examination of the holotype of the Norian (Late Triassic) clam shrimp type species Shipingia hebaozhaiensis Shen in Zhang et al., 1976 has revealed that small and large sized reticulations are irregularly arranged in the dorsal part of the carapace. In the middle part of the carapace, large sized reticulations are located in the upper part, and small sized reticulations in the lower part of each growth band. Growth bands in the ventral part of the carapace have only small sized reticulations. This ornamentation pattern is different from that of the other Norian zonal species from North America and western Europe.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42745333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.10
C. Jouault, A. Nel
{"title":"The oldest crown representative of the family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from the Paleocene of Menat (France)","authors":"C. Jouault, A. Nel","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"Pristaulacus jarzembowskii sp. nov., oldest fossil of the crown group Aulacidae, is described from the Paleocene of Menat (France). The previously oldest fossil crown-aulacid was known from the Lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (France). The inferences of parasitoidism on Cerambycidae or Buprestidae together with the preferences of warm evergreen forest with wildfires are in accordance with the known data on the Menat paleobiota.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44739353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.8
E. Lukashevich
{"title":"Revision of Archizelmira Rohdendorf, 1962 (Diptera, Archizelmiridae)","authors":"E. Lukashevich","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of the extinct genus Archizelmira Rohdendorf, 1962 is described based on an isolated wing from the Middle Jurassic of West Siberia (Itat Formation, Bathonian). Both previously known species are re-examined. Additional wing venation characters are found for the genus, which support its status as a sister group to the rest of the family. A new Cretaceous subfamily, Burmazelmirinae subfam. nov. is proposed.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43252808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PalaeoentomologyPub Date : 2022-06-29DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.9
D. Azar, Sibelle Maksoud
{"title":"Paleopsychoda jarzembowskii, a new Lower Cretaceous species of moth flies from Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae)","authors":"D. Azar, Sibelle Maksoud","doi":"10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Paleopsychoda jarzembowskii sp. nov. is characterized, illustrated, and described from the lower Barremian amber of Mdeyrij-Hammana (Lebanon). It represents the first psychodid fly in Lower Cretaceous amber showing sexual dimorphism in wing characters. The discovery of this Cretaceous psychodid fly demonstrates that this genus had a large diversification and broad distribution, and improves our knowledge of the evolution of moth flies.","PeriodicalId":53179,"journal":{"name":"Palaeoentomology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42395080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}