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A Peculiar New Genus of Bibionomorpha (Diptera) with Brachycera-Like Modification of Antennae from Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

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Journal Insects
Specialty Biology
Date 2021 Apr 30
PMID 33923888
Citations 3
Authors
Jan Sevcik
John Skartveit
Wieslaw Krzeminski
Kornelia Skibinska
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Abstract

A new fossil genus of Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha), gen. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, is described and illustrated (type species sp. nov., the other two species included are sp. nov. and sp. nov.). The new genus is tentatively placed in a new subfamily, Burmahesperininae subfam. nov. of the family Bibionidae. Its possible phylogenetic position is briefly discussed. The new genus, as well as the subfamily, possesses the wing venation similar to the recent genus Walker, 1848, in combination with Brachycera-like modification of both the male and female antenna and the overall habitus typical of fungus gnats (Sciaroidea).

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