1. Parasitic hump-backed flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Middle Miocene ambers
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Simon Rosse-Guillevic, Chunpeng Xu, Mónica M. Solórzano-Kraemer, Brian V. Brown, Jörg U. Hammel, Clément Bourdeau, Senckenberg Research Institute, laboratoire d'études des bio-indicateurs actuels et fossiles, Université d'Angers (UA), Géosciences Rennes (GR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS-CAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Nanjing Branch]-Chinese Academy of Sciences [Nanjing Branch], University of Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (UCAS), Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DFG, VolkswagenStiftung, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Stratigraphy ,Fauna ,Zoology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Genus ,ddc:550 ,Myriophora ,Mexico ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,Phoridae ,0303 health sciences ,Fossil Record ,biology ,Dominican Republic ,Millipede ,Paleontology ,Miocene ,biology.organism_classification ,Zhangpu ,3. Good health ,Amber ,Dominican amber ,Geography ,Key (lock) ,[SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology - Abstract
International audience; Phorid flies are an abundant and diverse dipteran family in modern faunas, yet poorly represented in the fossil record. Here, we describe the first fossil species of the millipede parasitizing genus Myriophora, M. asiatica n. sp., and three new fossil species of the ant parasitizing genus Apocephalus, A. miocenus n. sp., A. dominicanus n. sp., and A. chiapanecus n. sp. discovered in Miocene amber deposits from China, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Moreover, we add details on the previously described species Apocephalus succineus Brown, previously described in Dominican amber, with the description of a new specimen. We also include a dichotomous key for all Apocephalus species described in the fossil record..
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- 2021
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