Wichard, Wilfried, Espeland, Marianne, Mueller, Patrick and Wang, Bo (2020). New species of caddisflies with bipectinate antennae from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera: Odontoceratidae, Calamoceratidae). Eur. J. Taxon., 653. S. 1 - 18. PARIS: MUSEUM NATL HISTOIRE NATURELLE. ISSN 2118-9773

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Abstract

Three new fossil species from Burmese amber are described, one clearly in family Calamoceratidae, the other two in the highly variable family Odontoceridae. The family Odontoceridae contains 18 disparate genera, but there are no good diagnostic characters, which makes it difficult to place fossil taxa in this family. We here offer a revised diagnosis for the family, highlighting the lack of good diagnostic characters, and the need to use sets of characters to place (extinct) taxa in this family. On this taxonomic basis we describe two new species in the hitherto monotypic fossil genus Palaeopsilotreta Wichard & Wang, 2017 (Odontoceridae), Palaeopsilotreta burmanica sp. nov. and P. cretacea sp. nov., redescribe the type species based on additional information, and describe features of the female, based on two specimens, one of which is embedded adjacent to a male identified as P. xiai. Males of Palaeopsilotreta bear bipectinate antennae; the antennae of the females are simple and filiform. Similarly, bipectinate antennae are present in the third species we describe, Bipectinata orientalis gen. et sp. nov., which otherwise lacks the character combinations associated with the Odontoceridae, but clearly can be assigned to the family Calamoceratidae.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Wichard, WilfriedUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Espeland, MarianneUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Mueller, PatrickUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Wang, BoUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-332763
DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.653
Journal or Publication Title: Eur. J. Taxon.
Volume: 653
Page Range: S. 1 - 18
Date: 2020
Publisher: MUSEUM NATL HISTOIRE NATURELLE
Place of Publication: PARIS
ISSN: 2118-9773
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
PHYLOGENY; GENUSMultiple languages
Plant Sciences; Entomology; ZoologyMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/33276

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