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Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-02
Page range: 372–382
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A new genus and species of ibis fly in the Lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (France) (Diptera: Athericidae)

Résidence Croix du Sud, Rue Henri de Montherlant, F-33400 Talence
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
Insecta fossil taxonomy palaeodiversity Paleogene

Abstract

A new athericid genus and species, Eoatrichops jeanbernardi, gen. n., sp. n., is described, based on four specimens from the Lowermost Eocene of Oise (France). Its external morphology is analyzed and compared with of all genera of Athericidae. Eoatrichops is very similar to the modern genus Atrichops Verrall, differences concern the wing venation and tibial spur formula.