The first European representative of the South American family Xenopteraidae (Insecta: Megasecoptera) discovered in the Guadalupian of Lodève (France)

Abstract

A new genus, Sinitshenkovae gen. nov., is described, comprising the Carboniferous species Sinitshenkovae hueneckeni (Pinto & Pinto de Ornellas, 1978) comb. nov. from South America and new Guadalupian species S. gallica sp. nov. from France. These two species are attributed to the Paleozoic South American family Xenopteraidae, a previously monospecific family only containing Xenoptera riojaensis Pinto, 1986. Sinitshenkovae gallica sp. nov. is therefore the youngest representative of this family and the only record outside South America, which suggests that our current knowledge of the palaeobiogeography of Permian and Carboniferous insects remains incomplete.

Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic Insects: State of the Art on Paleoentomological Studies in Southern South America

“…However, in the last years, some taxa originally considered by Pinto (1995) as exclusively Carboniferous were recorded in Permian deposits worldwide ( e.g. , Sinitshenkovae gallica Nel, Lapeyrie & Garrouste, Middle Permian of France) (Nel et al , 2019). A thorough taxonomic review of the entomofauna from the Bajo de Véliz Formation based on new discoveries of Carboniferous and Permian insects worldwide will undoubtedly help to constrain the age of the unit and, maybe point to a younger age, in closer agreement to the age suggested by its paleoflora ( i.e.…”

A new ‘grylloblattodean’ genus and species (Insecta: Polyneoptera) from the middle Permian Salagou Formation (France)

“…The middle Permian of the Salagou Formation (near Lodève town, Southern France) has yielded an impressive diversity of fossil insects, with 14 orders recorded (Prokop & Nel 2011;Prokop et al 2014Prokop et al , 2015aProkop et al , 2015bSzwedo et al 2015;Garrouste et al 2018;Nel et al 2019). The superorder Archaeorthoptera Béthoux & Nel, 2002 is especially diverse (see list in Prokop et al 2015b).…”