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Cratomyia macrorrhyncha, a Lower Cretaceous brachyceran fossil from the Santana Formation, Brazil, representing a new species, genus and family of the Stratiomyomorpha (Diptera)

Cratomyia macrorrhyncha, a Lower Cretaceous brachyceran fossil from the Santana Formation,... <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A new fossil Brachycera (Diptera), Cratomyia macrorrhyncha gen. n. &amp; sp. n. is described from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, situated on the Araripe Basin (Northeastern Brazil). Its remarkable features are the large body size, very long proboscis, antenna with multi-articled flagellum, robust thorax and abdomen, and wing characters like the abbreviated costal vein, distally forked veins R4+5 and M1+2, strongly arched M1, and closed cells m3 and cup. The new genus and species does not reasonably fit in any of the existing families and a new family, Cratomyiidae is proposed. The systematic position of the family is discussed. Reasons are given for not including it in the following higher taxa of Brachycera: Xylophagomorpha, Tabanomorpha, Vermileonomorpha, Asilomorpha, and Eremoneura. The Cratomyiidae are included in Stratiomyomorpha as the sister-group of Xylomyidae + Stratiomyidae, above the origin of Pantophthalmidae.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Insect Systematics & Evolution Brill

Cratomyia macrorrhyncha, a Lower Cretaceous brachyceran fossil from the Santana Formation, Brazil, representing a new species, genus and family of the Stratiomyomorpha (Diptera)

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Brill
Copyright
© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1399-560X
eISSN
1876-312X
DOI
10.1163/187631200X00336
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A new fossil Brachycera (Diptera), Cratomyia macrorrhyncha gen. n. &amp; sp. n. is described from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, situated on the Araripe Basin (Northeastern Brazil). Its remarkable features are the large body size, very long proboscis, antenna with multi-articled flagellum, robust thorax and abdomen, and wing characters like the abbreviated costal vein, distally forked veins R4+5 and M1+2, strongly arched M1, and closed cells m3 and cup. The new genus and species does not reasonably fit in any of the existing families and a new family, Cratomyiidae is proposed. The systematic position of the family is discussed. Reasons are given for not including it in the following higher taxa of Brachycera: Xylophagomorpha, Tabanomorpha, Vermileonomorpha, Asilomorpha, and Eremoneura. The Cratomyiidae are included in Stratiomyomorpha as the sister-group of Xylomyidae + Stratiomyidae, above the origin of Pantophthalmidae.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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Insect Systematics & EvolutionBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2000

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