A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations

Abstract. We describe a new genus and species of Mecoptera with siphonate mouthparts, Sinopolycentropus rasnitsyni gen. et sp. n., assigned to the family Pseudopolycentropodidae Handlirsch, 1925. The specimen was collected from late Middle Jurassic nonmarine strata of the Jiulongshan Formation in In...

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Autores principales: Shih, ChungKun, Yang, Xiaoguang, Labandeira, Conrad C., Ren, Dong
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22259283
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1641
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author Shih, ChungKun
Yang, Xiaoguang
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Ren, Dong
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description Abstract. We describe a new genus and species of Mecoptera with siphonate mouthparts, Sinopolycentropus rasnitsyni gen. et sp. n., assigned to the family Pseudopolycentropodidae Handlirsch, 1925. The specimen was collected from late Middle Jurassic nonmarine strata of the Jiulongshan Formation in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. The new material provides additional evidence for an early diversification of pseudopolycentropodids that was ongoing during the Middle Jurassic. This diversity also adds to the variety of known pseudopolycentropodids with tubular proboscides that apparently fed on ovulate fluids produced by Mesozoic gymnosperms.
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spelling pubmed-32607662012-01-18 A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations Shih, ChungKun Yang, Xiaoguang Labandeira, Conrad C. Ren, Dong Zookeys Article Abstract. We describe a new genus and species of Mecoptera with siphonate mouthparts, Sinopolycentropus rasnitsyni gen. et sp. n., assigned to the family Pseudopolycentropodidae Handlirsch, 1925. The specimen was collected from late Middle Jurassic nonmarine strata of the Jiulongshan Formation in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. The new material provides additional evidence for an early diversification of pseudopolycentropodids that was ongoing during the Middle Jurassic. This diversity also adds to the variety of known pseudopolycentropodids with tubular proboscides that apparently fed on ovulate fluids produced by Mesozoic gymnosperms. Pensoft Publishers 2011-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3260766/ /pubmed/22259283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1641 Text en ChungKun Shih, Xiaoguang Yang, Conrad C. Labandeira, Dong Ren http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shih, ChungKun
Yang, Xiaoguang
Labandeira, Conrad C.
Ren, Dong
A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title_full A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title_fullStr A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title_full_unstemmed A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title_short A new long-proboscid genus of Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China and its plant-host specializations
title_sort new long-proboscid genus of pseudopolycentropodidae (mecoptera) from the middle jurassic of china and its plant-host specializations
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3260766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22259283
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1641
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