A new genus of the mantispid-like Paraberothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Burmese amber, with special consideration of its probasitarsus spine-like setation

Vladimir N Makarkin

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.2

A new genus of the mantispid-like Paraberothinae (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Burmese amber, with special consideration of its probasitarsus spine-like setation

Zootaxa. 2015 Aug 28;4007(3):327-42. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.2.

Author

Vladimir N Makarkin¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.; Email: [email protected].

PMID: 26623814
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.2

Abstract

Creagroparaberotha groehni gen. et sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Berothidae: Paraberothinae) is described from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber. The revised diagnosis of Paraberothinae is provided. The specialized probasitarsi in Paraberothinae, Rhachiberothinae (Berothidae) and Symphrasinae (Mantispidae) are considered as a homoiology (parallelism), i.e., convergent modifications of a homologous structure. The genus Berothone Khramov, 2015 is considered to belong to the subfamily Mesithoninae (Berothidae).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amber / chemistry*
Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Body Size
Female
Fossils / anatomy & histology
Insecta / anatomy & histology
Insecta / classification*
Insecta / growth & development
Male
Organ Size

Substances

Amber