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A new species of Orthobittacus (Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia (China)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2017

Katarzyna Kopeć ,
Wiesław Krzemiński ,
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj ,
Yizi Cao  and
Dong Ren
Katarzyna Kopeć
Affiliation:
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Wiesław Krzemiński
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology, Pedagogical University of Kraków, 31-054 Kraków, Poland
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj*
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, 90-237 Łódź, Poland; e-mail: agnieska.soszynska@biol.uni.lodz.pl
Yizi Cao
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
Dong Ren
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

The genus Orthobittacus was established by Willmann (1989) and is characterised by a long Sc vein and the unusually developed medial sector for the Bittacidae. Four Jurassic species have been described in this genus to date: O. abshiricus (Martynova, 1951) from Kirgizia; O.desacuminatus (Bode, 1953) from Braunschweig (Germany); O. polymitus Novokshonov, 1996 from Karatau (Kazakhstan); and O. maculosus Liu, Shih, Bashkuev & Ren, 2016 from the Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou (China). The fifth congeneric and second species from China, O. suni sp. nov., is described herein. The importance of the genus Orthobittacus for the phylogeny of Bittacidae, as the most plesiomorphic genus, is discussed.

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BittacidfossilMesozoicOrthobittacus suniscorpionfliestaxonomy
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 107 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber , June 2016 , pp. 157 - 162
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