Discovering a new fossil chironomid from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese Amber: Electroneura pinhoi sp. nov. Amaral, Silva & Baranov (Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
2024
Silva, Fabio Laurindo da | Amaral, André P. | Azar, Dany | Baranov, Viktor | Projekt DEAL | Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | German Academic Exchange Service | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España) | Amaral, André P. [0000-0001-5134-0847] | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
Here we present new insights into Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) preserved in Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. We describe a new genus and species, Electroneura pinhoi gen. et sp. nov., seemingly related to Tanypodinae and offer an amended description of Libanopelopia cretacica Veltz, Azar and Nel, 2007. Moreover, our investigation highlights the challenges of assigning fossils to modern taxonomic groups, based on previous studies of Tanypodinae, underscoring the necessity of considering the geological context and utilizing, when possible, both morphological and molecular data from extant taxa to validate taxonomic assignments in paleontological studies.
Show more [+] Less [-]Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. F. L. da Silva's contributions were supported by fellowships from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP—2021/08464–2, 2019/25567–0), which played a crucial role in the preparation of this manuscript. A. P. Amaral’s contributions were supported by a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship. Viktor Baranov’s work is supported by the State Agency of Innovation, within the Ramon y Cajal Program, grant number RYC2021-032144-I.
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