Oldest records of Bombyliidae: Phthiriinae and Mythicomyiidae: Glabellulinae from the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Bombylioidea)

Nel, André

doi:10.14411/eje.2006.016

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“…Rovno (Eocene) Eurodoliopteryx inexpectatus Nel, 2006 France (Eocene) Psiloderoidinae Carmenelectra shechisme Evenhuis, 2002c Baltic (Eocene) Carmenelectra shehuggme Evenhuis, n. sp.…”

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“…In my review of the Tertiary Mythicomyiidae (Evenhuis, 2002c) where I treated 10 species in six genera, with five species described as new in that work, there were only 35 specimens (in 33 amber pieces) known at that time (one specimen having been described previously [Pieza dominicana in Evenhuis, 2002a]). Since that review, two additional species (one species in each publication) were described by Nel & de Ploëg (2004) and Nel (2006), but again based on few specimens. The family continues to be relatively rare in amber discoveries but as more amber sites are found and additional amber inclusions from previous sites are sorted out, additional specimens proving to be new to science have come to light.…”

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<strong>New microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers, with notes on previously described amber species</strong>

Evenhuis

2013

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New mythicomyiids from Baltic and Rovno amber are described and illustrated herein including one new genus: Riga, n. gen.; and five new species: Glabellula aggregata Evenhuis, n. sp., Glabellula perkovskyi Evenhuis, n. sp., Riga toni Evenhuis, n. sp., Carmenelectra shehuggme Evenhuis, n. sp. and Carmenelectra pernigra Evenhuis, n. sp. The genus Riga is very closely related to the extant genus Reissa, which is known from a single species in the Canary Islands. A key to the seven Tertiary species of Glabellula is given. Notes are given clarifying the synonymy of Glabellula; and acting as First Reviser, Mythicomyia dominicana Evenhuis is selected as a correct original spelling. With the description of the new species in this study, the Tertiary fauna of Mythicomyiidae is now 17 species in 8 genera known from Baltic, Saxon, Bitterfeld, French, Rovno (all Eocene), and Dominican (Miocene) ambers.

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“…Rovno (Eocene) Eurodoliopteryx inexpectatus Nel, 2006 France (Eocene) Psiloderoidinae Carmenelectra shechisme Evenhuis, 2002c Baltic (Eocene) Carmenelectra shehuggme Evenhuis, n. sp.…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

<strong>New microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers, with notes on previously described amber species</strong>

Evenhuis

2013

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“…Cette famille est ancienne et a une répartition actuelle très éclatée. Une espèce fossile est connue du Jurassique (Evenhuis 1994), d'autres de l'Eocène basal de France (Nel 2006). En Afrique, elle est représentée par des espèces distribuées: 1) sur le pourtour méditerranéen et dans les îles Canaries et du Cap-Vert, 2) En Afrique Australe (Hull 1973) (fi g. 7).…”

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Les insectes actuels témoins des passés de l’Afrique : essai sur l’origine et la singularité de l’entomofaune de la region afrotropicale

Gall¹,

Silvain²,

Nel

et al. 2010

Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.)

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Abstract. The extant insects witnessing the pasts of Africa: essay on the origin and singularity of the Afrotropical entomofauna. This essay on the evolutionary history of the Afrotropical insects puts together the systematic and the evolution of many groups of insects with the large features of the geological, palaeobiogeographic and palaeoenvironmental history of the African continent. It is carried out starting from a synthetic approach, which endeavours to analyse some broad outlines of the origin of the diversity of entomological faunas of this area. The general history of the insects on a world scale is rather well-known thanks to the fossils and began around 400 Myr ago with the fi rst recognized insect fossils. On the African continent, fossil insects remain relatively rare, or little studied, outside several deposits in Southern Africa, which show a high entomological diversity. The fi rst known fossil traces in Africa go back to the Permian (250-290 Myr) from Madagascar (Orthoptera) and South Africa, with the Whitehill Formation (Coleoptera: Permocupedidae). The fi rst African record of a modern-like fauna is Triassic . Modern lineages truly diversifi ed during the Cretaceous (Orapa site: 89-93 Myr). Despite the importance of these sites they are not truly representatives of the evolution of African insect faunas, in particular during the Tertiary period, when the African fauna acquired its originality. The Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea came from Jurassic lineages but they mainly evolved during the Cenozoic with a crucial phase during the lower Oligocene for the coprophagous species due to the rapid radiation of the herbivorous mammals. Infortunatly, very few fossil Scarabaeoidea have been described from Africa. Africa draws its specifi city, as a biogeographic area, from the breakup of the Gondwanaland at the Cretaceous times. Did the old geographical continuity between the continents of the southern hemisphere have an infl uence on the extant faunas of these areas and in particular of the Afrotropical region? The taxa that present disjunct distributions on several parts of the southern continents are generally qualifi ed Gondwanian. They have remarkable rates of endemicity and one does not know a current representative to them out of the southern areas of the Southern hemisphere continents. However, the fossils suggest that these disjunct distributions could have been the results of processes of post-gondwanian extinctions rather than of the maintenance of original endemisms. The Mantophasmatodea, which are today endemics to Southern Africa, are known from the Eocene Baltic amber and the Middle Jurassic of China. It would be thus more judicious to use for these organisms the epithet of Mesozoic instead of Gondwanian taxa. Trans-Thethys exchanges between Africa and the Laurasian continent are well documented for the Vertebrates and for some insect taxa. One of the key periods of the splitting of Gondwana is the fi nal separation of the African and South American continents at the beginning of the late Cre...

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“…The record of non‐mythicomyiine bombyliids from Baltic amber follows Hennig (1966 b ). Recent additional fossil records are also included (Nel and De Ploeg 2004; Kotthoff 2005; Nel 2006). Numbers of extant genera and distribution mainly follow Evenhuis and Greathead (1999) with the subsequent zoogeographical abbreviations: ww, worldwide; w/o, without; AF, Afrotropical; AU, Australasian; NE, Nearctic; NT, Neotropical; OR, Oriental; PA, Palearctic.…”

Section: Fossil Record and Evolutionary History Of Bombyliidaementioning

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“…Most Cenozoic bee fly fossils appear close, or equivalent, to modern genera (Grimaldi 1999). The oldest records are from Lower Eocene French amber in which both mythicomyiine and non‐mythicomyiine Bombyliidae have been found recently (Nel and De Ploeg 2004; Nel 2006).…”

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EOCENE RECORDS OF BEE FLIES (INSECTA, DIPTERA, BOMBYLIIDAE, COMPTOSIA): THEIR PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS AND REMARKS ON THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BOMBYLIIDS

Wedmann¹

2008

Palaeontology

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Oldest records of Bombyliidae: Phthiriinae and Mythicomyiidae: Glabellulinae from the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Bombylioidea)

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

<strong>New microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers, with notes on previously described amber species</strong>

<strong>New microbombyliids (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers, with notes on previously described amber species</strong>

Les insectes actuels témoins des passés de l’Afrique : essai sur l’origine et la singularité de l’entomofaune de la region afrotropicale

EOCENE RECORDS OF BEE FLIES (INSECTA, DIPTERA, BOMBYLIIDAE, COMPTOSIA): THEIR PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS AND REMARKS ON THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BOMBYLIIDS

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