Wanted, tracked down and identified: Mesozoic non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae (Chironomidae, Diptera)
| Autor: | Dmitry D. Vorontsov, Kornelia Skibińska, Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj, Marta Zakrzewska, Elena D. Lukashevich, Wojciech Giłka, Peter S. Cranston |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology Insecta Subfamily Arthropoda Diptera 010607 zoology Zoology Biodiversity Biology biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Chironomidae Biting Chironominae Animalia Animal Science and Zoology Mesozoic Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Taxonomy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194:874-892 |
| ISSN: | 1096-3642 0024-4082 |
| Popis: | Here we provide evidence for the presence of non-biting midges of the subfamily Chironominae in the Mesozoic, based on descriptions of exceptionally rare amber inclusions. The subfamily has already been reported, but based on a single and unspecified record from Late Cretaceous Taimyr amber (~84 Mya). That record is here revised and confirmed. Moreover, a new find in Burmese amber locates the temporal boundary of the subfamily back to the mid-Cretaceous (probably ~100 Mya). We describe two new genera assigned to the tribe Pseudochironomini: Mesoacentron gen. nov. with the species Mesoacentron kaluginae sp. nov. (Taimyr amber) and Palaeocentron gen. nov. with the species Palaeocentron krzeminskii sp. nov. (Burmese amber), the oldest known representative of the subfamily. The systematic position of the new taxa is discussed, and a key to the identification of adult males of extinct and extant Pseudochironomini genera is presented. Insights in the phylogeny and diversification tempo of the Chironominae and Pseudochironomini in the past are also provided. |
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