A new genus of Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Upper Cretaceous amber of New Jersey |
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| Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China;2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;3. Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany;4. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA;5. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA;6. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA;7. Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia;8. Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia;9. Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117868 Moscow, Russia;10. Research Center of Quantum Informatics, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 84511, Slovakia |
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| Abstract: | We describe herein a new genus and species of Sycoracinae (Xenosycorax engeli). This new taxon is characterized, described, illustrated and its taxonomic position is discussed. This discovery is very interesting for the understanding of the evolution of this group. |
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| Keywords: | Sycoracinae Psychodidae New Jersey Amber Cretaceous Turonian gen. nov., sp. nov. |
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