A new Cretaceous psocodean family from the Charente-Maritime amber (France) (Insecta, Psocodea, Psocomorpha)

Dany Azar; André Nel; Didier Néraudeau

doi:10.5252/g2009n1a10

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1 March 2009 A new Cretaceous psocodean family from the Charente-Maritime amber (France) (Insecta, Psocodea, Psocomorpha)

Dany Azar, André Nel, Didier Néraudeau

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Geodiversitas, 31(1):117-127 (2009). https://doi.org/10.5252/g2009n1a10

Abstract

Arcantipsocus courvillei n. gen., n. sp. is described from the Cretaceous amber of Archingeay (France). It is placed within the suborder Psocomorpha, and in the Mesozoic extinct family Arcantipsocidae n. fam. characterized by 14-segmented antenna; legs with tarsi 3-segmented; forewing setose with evanescent veins; pterostigma dark, thickened and setose; M 2-branched; areola postica free; nodulus present; hind wing with M bifurcated, without basi-radial cell; claws with a preapical tooth. A cladistic phylogeny for Psocomorpha is given including the new fossil taxon. The discovery of this new taxon demonstrates the necessity of a deep phylogenetic redefinition of the currently admitted major subdivisions of this suborder.

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Dany Azar, André Nel, and Didier Néraudeau "A new Cretaceous psocodean family from the Charente-Maritime amber (France) (Insecta, Psocodea, Psocomorpha)," Geodiversitas 31(1), 117-127, (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.5252/g2009n1a10

Received: 12 October 2007; Accepted: 1 December 2008; Published: 1 March 2009

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