TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxonomic study of the Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae (Neuroptera
T2 - Myrmeleontoidea: Nymphidoidae), with description of new taxa
AU - Makarkin, Vladimir N.
AU - Heads, Sam W.
AU - Wedmann, Sonja
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank M. Jared Thomas (INHSP) for help with photography of the holotype of Parababinskaia elegans; Alexander V. Khramov (PIN) for photographs of the holotype of Baisonelia vitimica; Günter Schweigert (SMNS) for loan of specimen of Neliana maculata; Dmitry E. Shcherbakov and Alexander P. Rasnitsyn (PIN) for information on the Baissa locality; and anonymous reviewers for providing valuable suggestions to improve this manuscript. The study is supported by Grant Nos. 16-04-00053 and 14-04-00649 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (to VM) and U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant EF 1304622 (to SWH).
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - The Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae comprises nine species in seven genera, of which two new genera and one new species are described herein: Parababinskaia elegans gen. et sp. nov. from the late Aptian Crato Formation of Brazil, and Pseudobabinskaia gen. nov. (with the only species Pseudobabinskaia martinsnetoi Lu et al., 2017, comb. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The reduction of the veins AA2 and AA3 in the hind wing is an autapomorphy of the family. Babinskaiidae are most closely related to Nymphidae, and have probably evolved as a side branch of these. The superfamily Myrmeleontoidea is divided into two epifamilies: Nymphidoidae whose MP (or M) is long, not fused with CuA, and trichosors are present (Nymphidae, Babinskaiidae), and Myrmeleontoidae whose MP is crossvein-like, then fused with CuA, and trichosors are lost (Araripeneuridae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae, Nemopteridae, Palaeoleontidae). The aligned crossveins 1r-m and 1m-cu in the forewing is probably the only venational autapomorphy of the Myrmeleontoidea.
AB - The Cretaceous lacewing family Babinskaiidae comprises nine species in seven genera, of which two new genera and one new species are described herein: Parababinskaia elegans gen. et sp. nov. from the late Aptian Crato Formation of Brazil, and Pseudobabinskaia gen. nov. (with the only species Pseudobabinskaia martinsnetoi Lu et al., 2017, comb. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The reduction of the veins AA2 and AA3 in the hind wing is an autapomorphy of the family. Babinskaiidae are most closely related to Nymphidae, and have probably evolved as a side branch of these. The superfamily Myrmeleontoidea is divided into two epifamilies: Nymphidoidae whose MP (or M) is long, not fused with CuA, and trichosors are present (Nymphidae, Babinskaiidae), and Myrmeleontoidae whose MP is crossvein-like, then fused with CuA, and trichosors are lost (Araripeneuridae, Ascalaphidae, Myrmeleontidae, Nemopteridae, Palaeoleontidae). The aligned crossveins 1r-m and 1m-cu in the forewing is probably the only venational autapomorphy of the Myrmeleontoidea.
KW - Babinskaiidae
KW - Baissa
KW - Burmese amber
KW - Crato Formation
KW - Nymphidoidae
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.007
DO - 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.06.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021185617
VL - 78
SP - 149
EP - 160
JO - Cretaceous Research
JF - Cretaceous Research
SN - 0195-6671
ER -