TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic reappraisal of Araripeneuridae (Neuroptera
T2 - Myrmeleontoidea), with description of new species from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil
AU - Makarkin, Vladimir N.
AU - Wedmann, Sonja
AU - Heads, Sam W.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank M. Jared Thomas for help with photography of several specimens from the INHSP collection; Alexander V. Khramov (PIN) for photographs of the holotype of Paracroce altaica; Günter Schweigert for the loan of several specimens from the SMNS collection, Federica Menon for some photographs from that collection; and anonymous reviewers for providing valuable suggestions to improve this manuscript. The study is supported by Grant No. 16-04-00053 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research .
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Two new species of the extinct family Araripeneuridae are described from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil: Caririneura macrothoracica sp. nov. and Cratoneura minor sp. nov. Caririneura damianii Martins-Neto, 1992a and C. crassatella Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1997 are transferred to the genus Araripeneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a. The genera Blittersdorffia Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a, Pseudonymphes Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a and Burmaneura Huang et al., 2016 are removed from Araripeneuridae. These genera, together with Choromyrmeleon Ren and Guo, 1996, constitute the perhaps paraphyletic “Pseudonymphidae”, which may be a stem group of Myrmeleontidae + Ascalaphidae. Pseudonymphes is a most primitive genus of Myrmeleontoidae, having trichosors at the wing apex. The family Araripeneuridae as restricted herein, is considered to comprise 15–17 Early Cretaceous species in 7–9 genera. Due to the lack of distinguishing characters, the two subfamilies Cratoalloneurinae and Cratopteryxinae are synonymised with Araripeneuridae. The forewing venation of Araripeneuridae is most similar to that of Nemopteridae, and these families might be closely related, constituting a nemopterid lineage.
AB - Two new species of the extinct family Araripeneuridae are described from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil: Caririneura macrothoracica sp. nov. and Cratoneura minor sp. nov. Caririneura damianii Martins-Neto, 1992a and C. crassatella Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1997 are transferred to the genus Araripeneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a. The genera Blittersdorffia Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a, Pseudonymphes Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989a and Burmaneura Huang et al., 2016 are removed from Araripeneuridae. These genera, together with Choromyrmeleon Ren and Guo, 1996, constitute the perhaps paraphyletic “Pseudonymphidae”, which may be a stem group of Myrmeleontidae + Ascalaphidae. Pseudonymphes is a most primitive genus of Myrmeleontoidae, having trichosors at the wing apex. The family Araripeneuridae as restricted herein, is considered to comprise 15–17 Early Cretaceous species in 7–9 genera. Due to the lack of distinguishing characters, the two subfamilies Cratoalloneurinae and Cratopteryxinae are synonymised with Araripeneuridae. The forewing venation of Araripeneuridae is most similar to that of Nemopteridae, and these families might be closely related, constituting a nemopterid lineage.
KW - Araripeneuridae
KW - Bon-Tsagaan
KW - Crato Formation
KW - Myrmeleontoidea
KW - Nemopteridae
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.018
DO - 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044383105
SN - 0195-6671
VL - 84
SP - 600
EP - 621
JO - Cretaceous Research
JF - Cretaceous Research
ER -