https://www.mapress.com/pe/issue/feedPalaeoentomology2023-10-30T11:33:28+13:00Diying Huangdyhuang@nigpas.ac.cnOpen Journal Systems<p><strong>Palaeoentomology </strong>is the official journal of the <a href="http://fossilinsects.net/">International Palaeoentomological Society</a> (IPS). It is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal, which publishes high quality, original research contributions as well as review papers. Papers are published in English and they cover a wide spectrum of topics in palaeoentomology, fossil terrestrial arthropods and amber research, i.e. systematic palaeontology, morphology, diversity, palaeogeography, palaeoecology, palaeobehavior, evolutionary and phylogenetic studies on fossil insects and terrestrial arthropods, biostratigraphy, taphonomy, and amber (deposits, inclusions, geochemistry, curation). Descriptions of new methods (analytical, instrumental or numerical) should be relevant to the broad scope of the journal.</p> <p> </p> <p>Palaeoentomology is the flag journal of IPS, who is responsible for the editing of this journal. For more info about IPS, please contact Prof. Dr. Hab. Dany Azar, Lebanese University, Lebanon. danyazar@ul.edu.lb</p>https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.5<p><strong>A review of the singing cicada fossils from the Pliocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Willershausen, Germany, with the description of three new species (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Tibicinae and Cicadinae)</strong></p>2023-08-02T06:55:04+12:00MAX MOULDSmsmoulds@gmail.comUWE KAULFUSSuwe.kaulfuss@uni-goettingen.deALEXANDER GEHLERagehler@gwdg.de<p>The singing cicada fossils (Cicadidae), based mainly on isolated forewings, from the Pliocene Fossil-Lagerstätte Willershausen, Germany, are reviewed, including previously published material and unpublished specimens from the collections of the Geoscience Museum of the Geoscience Centre at the Georg August University in Göttingen, the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, and the Geoscience Collections of the Clausthal University of Technology, which represent the three largest collections from this outstanding locality. Three new species, <em>Tibicina lata</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong>, <em>Tibicina boulardi</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(Tibicinae), and <em>Cicada tithonus</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(Cicadinae) are described based on forewing characters. Other singing cicadas from Willershausen are assigned to <em>Tibicina</em> sp., <em>Tibicina</em> aff. <em>haematodes</em>, <em>Cicada</em> aff. <em>orni, Cicada </em>aff. <em>lodosi</em> and indeterminable species.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.6<p><strong>Evolution of Insect Diversity in the Permian and Triassic</strong></p>2023-09-19T00:08:59+12:00SHUANG-MAO GUIgsm199902@163.comYU-CHU LIUliuyuchusherry@163.comLI TIANtianlibgeg@cug.edu.cn<p>The global warming that occurred during the Permo-Triassic transition, following the end of the Late Paleozoic glaciation, and the resulting responses of the biota to the changing environment, are considered important analogs for understanding rapid future warming scenarios. While there has been extensive research on the patterns and extent of diversity in plants, tetrapods, and marine invertebrates during the Permo-Triassic, the study of insect diversity and the evolution of their faunal composition has been relatively limited. The question of whether there were insect extinctions during this period continues to be a subject of debate. Here, we present a statistical study on taxonomic diversity of insects—at specific, generic and familial levels—throughout the Permian and Triassic, with subsampled context on the reported global occurrences. Our result show that more than one insect extinction events, accompanied by significant diversity drop and turnovers of faunal compositional, occurred in the Permian and Triassic. All the uncovered insect diversity crises exhibit strong correspondence with the well-known marine mass extinction events in the Middle Permian, Permo-Triassic transition, Carnian, and Rhaetian, whilst the marine correspondence with the Early Permian insect crisis is less pronounced. Insects, being a major component of terrestrial ecosystems, demonstrate varied diversity responses to climatic changes in Permian and Triassic. Our study sheds new light on the intricate interplay between insect diversity evolution and the changing environmental conditions during these critical geohistorical periods.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.7<p><strong>First fossil record of <em>Trichosteleum</em> (Bryophyta: Sematophyllaceae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber in Asia</strong></p>2023-07-13T02:45:07+12:00ZI-XI WANGzxwang@nigpas.ac.cnXIE-TING WUxtwu@nigpas.ac.cnSU-XIN YINsxyin@nigpas.ac.cnCHONG DONGcdong@nigpas.ac.cnWEI-QIU LIUlsslwq@mail.sysu.edu.cn<p>The evolutionary history of terrestrial moss in Asia during the Cenozoic is poorly interpreted in largely because of very limited fossil evidence. The middle Miocene Zhangpu amber is the sole resin source of moss fossils in China, which shows a diverse moss population during the mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum. In this study, we reported the discovery of a gametophyte fragment of moss fossil in a well-preserved amber inclusion from the middle Miocene of Zhangpu, Southeast China. The observation methods involved light microscopy and synchrotron radiation–based X-ray microcomputed tomography analysis on the amber inclusions. The fossil has lanceolate leaves with involute margins, long linear laminal cells with unipapillae, well-developed and enlarged alar cells, and an absence of costae. The fossil is assigned to the extant <em>Trichosteleum</em> and represents the only known occurrence of a fossilized <em>Trichosteleum</em> member in Asia. This finding enhances our comprehension on the moss diversity within Zhangpu amber and establishes a first record of <em>Trichosteleum</em> in Asia.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.8<p><strong>Cretaceous beetles of the Jinju Formation (Coleoptera): Archostemata</strong></p>2023-10-06T09:37:37+13:00SOO BIN LEEdinos20000@naver.comGI SOO NAMfossil@gjue.ac.krJONG KYUN PARKentopark@knu.ac.krBYONG HO LEEgudara90@gmail.comYAN-DA LIydli@pku.edu.cn<p>The beetles from the Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte in South Korea, Jinju Formation, remain largely unstudied. In the present study, the fossils of suborder Archostemata from the Jinju Formation are described and illustrated, including the complete bodies of <em>Asiania pax</em> <strong>gen. et sp. nov.</strong> and <em>Brochocoleus sacheonensis</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong>, and the isolated elytra of <em>Brochocoleus</em> cf. <em>punctatus</em>, <em>Omma</em> sp. and <em>Zygadenia cornigera</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong></p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.9<p><strong>A new hangingfly species (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation (Canada)</strong></p>2023-10-05T03:17:35+13:00CORENTIN JOUAULTjouaultc0@gmail.comBAPTISTE COUTRETbaptiste.coutret@gmail.comKURT O. KONHAUSERkurtk@ualberta.caANDRÉ NELanel@mnhn.fr<p>The order Mecoptera, commonly known as scorpionflies, has a long and fascinating evolutionary history that spans over 270 million years, if we consider its stem group. Despite their well-documented fossil record during the Mesozoic, many aspects of their diversity and evolution remain poorly understood. In this study, we increase the fossil record of Mecoptera by describing a new taxon from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation (Alberta, Canada). This specimen is described as <em>Bittacus</em>?<em> paskapooensis</em> <strong>sp. nov. </strong>(Raptipedia: Bittacidae) but is assigned with caution to <em>Bittacus</em> due to the lack of apomorphic wing venation characters for this genus.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.10<p><strong>A new scolebythid-like chrysidoid genus and species (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) with striking metasomal structure from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber</strong></p>2023-10-05T02:34:37+13:00SIMON ROSSE-GUILLEVICsimon.rosse56@gmail.comCORENTIN JOUAULTjouaultc0@gmail.comMANUEL BRAZIDECmanuel.brazidec@gmail.com<p>The Cretaceous fossil record of the aculeate superfamily Chrysidoidea has been greatly enriched in the past few years, thanks especially to the abundance of available material in the late Albian-early Cenomanian amber from the Kachin state (Myanmar). We here document the discovery of a new genus and species, <em>Thagyaminobythus martini</em> <strong>gen. et sp. nov.</strong>, from Kachin amber, emphasizing the extraordinary diversity of chrysidoid wasps in this deposit. The genus is left as <em>incertae sedis</em> within the superfamily because it exhibits a combination of Scolebythidae, Bethylidae and Chrysididae features. We discuss the possibility that <em>Thagyaminobythus martini</em> <strong>gen. et sp. nov.</strong> could retract its posterior metasomal segments and the co-occurrence of such a structure in several chrysidoid families.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.11<p><strong>A striking new XXL-size flat bug from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: <em>Archemezira nuoyichenae</em> sp. nov. (Heteroptera, Aradidae)</strong></p>2023-10-11T14:49:40+13:00ERNST HEISSaradus@aon.atHUA-RONG CHENchr8731@hotmail.com<p>The mid-Cretaceous amber deposits in Northern Myanmar yielded to date eleven genera and 14 species of the flat bug family Aradidae. A remarkable large female specimen of a flat bug shares basic characters of the genus <em>Archemezira</em> is supposed to represent a female taxon of this genus and is described and figured herein as <em>Archemezira nuoyichenae</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong></p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.12<p><strong>A new brown lacewing (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber</strong></p>2023-08-13T12:18:52+12:00SHU-MIN LIlishm36@mail2.sysu.edu.cnDONG RENrendong@cnu.edu.cnQIANG YANGyq11_1984@126.comCHAO-FAN SHIshichf5@mail.sysu.edu.cn<p>A new genus and species of fossil hemerobiid, <em>Longantenna hei</em> <strong>gen. et sp. nov.</strong>, is described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. This new genus exhibits the venation characters combination of RP with only one stem and the forewing ScP and RA separated, resembling the extinct genus <em>Hemeroberotha</em> Makarkin & Gröhn, 2020 from the same assemblage, meanwhile it shows more differences from the other Mesozoic and Cenozoic hemerobiid genera. Besides, the ORBs variations among the extinct and extant hemerobiids are discussed.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.13<p><strong>New Jurassic protopsyllidiids from the Yan’an Formation, North China (Insecta: Hemiptera)</strong></p>2023-10-24T10:19:19+13:00MIN-MIN XUmmxu@nigpas.ac.cnMARINA HAKIMmarina@nigpas.ac.cnDI-YING HUANGdyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn<p>The Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao biota is a significant paleoecosystem for the understanding of the evolution of Life during the Mesozoic. The origin, distribution, and geology of the Yanliao biota are poorly understood to date. Here we describe and illustrate two new species of protopsyllidiids, namely <em>Sinopsocus yananensis </em><strong>sp. nov.</strong> and <em>Subaphidulum sinica </em><strong>sp. nov.</strong> from the Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation near Yan’an City, Shaanxi Province, North China. <em>S. yananensis</em> <strong>sp. nov.</strong> closely resembles the type species<em> Sinopsocus oligovenus</em> from the Haifanggou Formation at Beipiao City, West Liaoning, Northeast China. The new discoveries not only increase the diversity of Mesozoic protopsyllidiids but also provide thread for understanding the origin of the Yanliao biota.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.1<p><strong>Oribatid mites in Burmese amber I. First record of the family Achipteriidae (Acariformes, Oribatida) in Cretaceous amber, with the description of a new species of <em>Cerachipteria</em> Grandjean, 1935</strong></p>2023-10-13T12:37:25+13:00ANTONIO ARILLOarillo@educa.madrid.orgLUIS S. SUBÍASsubias@bio.ucm.esDI-YING HUANGdyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn<p>Burmese amber originates from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar (Burma). Shi <em>et al</em>. (2012) proposed an age of <em>ca</em>. 99 Ma based on zircon dating, whereas Smith & Ross (2018) proposed an age of 100 Ma based on sediments inside amber produced by bored bivalves. Regarding the plant producing resin Cruickshank & Ko (2003) recorded spores both of Araucariaceae and Taxodiaceae origin. Poinar <em>et al</em>. (2007) proposed an araucariacean origin due to the similitudes with modern kauri pines (<em>Agathis</em>) from New Zealand, while Grimaldi & Ross (2017) suggested the possibility of a Cupressaceae (<em>Metasequoia</em>) origin. Although amber inclusions from Myanmar were first described by Cockerell (1916), great interest (and a huge number of papers) in this biota started only two decades ago.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.2<p><strong>First leafhopper from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation (Denmark) representing a new genus of Cicadellinae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha)</strong></p>2023-08-13T23:50:30+12:00CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICHchdietri@illinois.eduEVGENY E. PERKOVSKYperkovsk@gmail.com<p>The Fur Formation, located in the western Limfjord region of northern Jutland, Denmark, is famous for its numerous and often exceptionally well-preserved marine and terrestrial fossils (<em>e</em>.<em>g</em>., Bonde <em>et al</em>., 2008). The geological background of the Konservat-Lagerstätte was described by Pedersen & Surlyk (1983). The formation preserves a rich record of earliest Ypresian (Eocene, <em>ca</em>. 55 Ma) fossil insects (<em>e</em>.<em>g</em>., Madsen & Rasmussen, 2021). The fauna includes many hemipterans mostly representing Heteroptera and Sternorrhyncha but the diverse modern family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers) is represented by a single specimen among the >20,000 available insect fossils discovered so far.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.3<p><strong>Scientific analysis of ancient amber artifacts along the Maritime Silk Road</strong></p>2023-10-11T09:57:24+13:00QI LIUcambrianlq@yahoo.comSONG LIUliusong@siom.ac.cnLIANG-BO LÜ80999487@qq.comXING-PING LIlixingping@siom.ac.cnQING-HUI LIqinghuili@siom.ac.cnCHUNG-JUNG LIAO1390992405@qq.com<p>Amber, highly prized in ancient times, has a wide range of applications. Archaeological evidence confirms that amber played a significant role in long-distance material exchange and trade during ancient times. Baltic amber, in particular, was extensively traded in the Near East region during the Bronze age (<em>e</em>.<em>g</em>., Todd, 1985). The emergence of the Silk Road trade additionally facilitated the spread of amber and its products in the Far East. Extensive archaeological excavations conducted across the Eurasian steppe (Treister, 2020), as well as in China and the Korean Peninsula, have yielded numerous amber artifacts originating from the Baltic Sea (<em>e</em>.<em>g</em>., Park <em>et al</em>., 2016; Xiao <em>et al</em>., 2020; Liu <em>et al</em>., 2022). The northern region of Myanmar served as a significant source of amber material in Asia during ancient times, and amber from this area and its products have also been discovered in the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 AD) tombs in China (Chen <em>et al</em>., 2019; Zhao <em>et al</em>., 2023; Liu <em>et al</em>., 2023). It is generally accepted that the ancient amber artifacts in China were primarily made from amber obtained from both the Baltic region and Myanmar (<em>e</em>.<em>g</em>., Xu, 2008). However, the scarcity of amber in Iron Age sites across South and Southeast Asia impedes tour comprehensive understanding about its usage and trade among this specific area.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limitedhttps://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.5.4<p><strong>An unusual artematopodid beetle from Early Cretaceous Wealden amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae)</strong></p>2023-10-14T02:55:50+13:00ERIK TIHELKAwn20250@bristol.ac.ukEDMUND A. JARZEMBOWSKIjarzembowski2@live.co.ukDANY AZARdanyazar@ul.edu.lbDI-YING HUANGdyhuang@nigpas.ac.cnCHEN-YANG CAIcycai@nigpas.ac.cn<p>Early Cretaceous Wealden amber of the Isle of Wight (early Barremian, ~125 Ma) represents one of the oldest known fossiliferous ambers. Here we describe the first fossil beetle from the deposit, and first British coleopteran amber inclusion, the artematopodid <em>Valdopogon simpsoni</em> <strong>gen. et sp. nov</strong>. Despite its fragmentary nature, the fossil possesses a puzzling combination of characters unseen in modern Artematopodidae, namely equally long abdominal ventrites I and II, concave sutures between ventrites I–V, and absence of elytral striation. <em>Valdopogon </em>contributes to our understanding of the morphological evolution of this once diverse group of elateroid beetles.</p>2023-10-30T00:00:00+13:00Copyright (c) 2023 Magnolia press limited