A new genus and species of spoon-winged lacewing from the Cretaceous Crato Formation in Brazil (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae)

André Nel (1) , Cristian Pella

1 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité

The lacewing family Nemopteridae Burmeister, 1839 is very poorly represented in the fossil record with three Early Cretaceous genera of uncertain affinities from the Brazilian Crato Formation, one ‘mid’-Cretaceous representative of the stem group of the Crocinae Navás, 1910 in the Burmese amber, and two Cenozoic nemopterine genera Marquettia Navás, 1913 (late Eocene-early Oligocene) and Paleonemia Claisse et al., 2019 (middle Oligocene). Also two undetermined Nemopterinae are recorded from the late Eocene and the Oligocene (Lu et al., 2019a: Table 1; Claisse et al., 2019).

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy

André Nel, Cristian Pella. A new genus and species of spoon-winged lacewing from the Cretaceous Crato Formation in Brazil (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae). Palaeoentomology, 2020, 3 (4), pp.338-341. ⟨10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.2⟩. ⟨mnhn-03992989⟩