2010 in paleoarthropodology

Arthropods

Anomalocaridids

Newly named crustaceans

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aciculopoda[3]	Valid	Feldmann Schweitzer	Devonian		USA	Oldest known shrimp.
Chenops[4]	Valid	Hegna Ren	Barremian	Yixian Formation	China	A notostracan	Chenops yixianensis
Jeholops[4]	Valid	Hegna Ren	Barremian	Yixian Formation	China	A notostracan	Jeholops (left)
Nasunaris[5]	Valid	Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, & Sutton	Silurian		UK	An ostracod

Newly named insects

• A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.^[6]
• A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs.^[7]
• A new family, Mendozachoristidae, is published by Brauckmann et al..^[8]
• A new family of Moths, Mesokristenseniidae, is published by Huang, Nel and Minet.^[9]
• A new order of holometabolous insects, Nakridletia, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.^[10]
• A new family of holometabolous insects, Vosilidae, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.^[10]
• A new family of Cockroaches, Socialidae, is published by Vršanský.^[11]
• A new family of fulgoroid hemipterans, Weiwoboidae, is published by Lin, Szwedo, Huang and Stroiński.^[12]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bohemiatupus elegans[13]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Prokop & Nel	Westphalian	Kladno Formation	Czech Republic
Camptoneurites soyanensis[14]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kazanian	Soyana locality	Russia
Cantabroraphidia[15]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Pérez-de la Fuente, Nel, Peñalver, & Delclòs	Albian	Las Peñosas Formation, Cave of El Soplao	Spain	A mesoraphidiid snakefly; The single species is C. marcanoi	Cantabroraphidia marcanoi
Cascoplecia[6]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Poinar	Early Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Burma	A flower-visiting fly.	Cascoplecia
Crepidodera decolorata[16]	sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Deinodryinus? aptianus[17]	sp nov	Valid	Olmi, Rasnitsyn, & Guglielmino	Aptian	Khurilt rock unit	Mongolia	A dryinid wasp.	Deinodryinus? aptianus
Ektatotricha[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Electroatopos[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Iberoevania[19]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Amber	Spain	An evaniid
Jerseyempheria[20]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius	Cretaceous	New Jersey amber	USA	A empheriid psocodean
Kachinus[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Lichnomesopsyche[21]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Middle Jurassic	Jiulongshan Formation	China	A mesopsychid mecopteran
Manobiomorpha[16]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Mendozachorista[8]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke, Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara	Late Triassic	Llantenes Formation	Argentina	The species is M. volkheimeri
Mesokristensenia[9]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Huang, Nel, & Minet	Middle Jurassic	Daohugou Beds	China
Microcostaphron[7]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Álava amber	Spain	The species is M. parvus
Paleophaedon[16]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A chrysomeline leaf beetle
Parazila[10]	gen et sp nov	Synonymized	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Late Jurassic		Russia	A fly
Psyllototus[16]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Radiophron[7]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Álava amber	Spain	The species is R. ibericus
Raptorapax[22]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel	Early Cretaceous	Amber	Lebanon	A rhachiberothid lacewing
Sociala[11]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský	Albian	Amber	France	A cockroach
Tyulkinia[14]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kungurian	Tyulkino locality	Russia
Vitimopsyche kozlovi[21]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Early Cretaceous	Jehol Biota	China	A mesopsychid mecopteran
Vosila[10]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Middle Jurassic		China	A fly
Weiwoboa[12]	Fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński	Lower Eocene		China

Newly named spiders

Notes

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allison C. Daley, Graham E. Budd (2010). "New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 721–738. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00955.x. 
2. ↑ Jean-Bernard Caron, Robert R. Gaines, M. Gabriela Mángano, Michael Streng and Allison C. Daley (2010). "A new Burgess Shale–type assemblage from the "thin" Stephen Formation of the southern Canadian Rockies". Geology 38 (9): 811–814. doi:10.1130/G31080.1. Retrieved 26 February 2011. 
3. ↑ Rodney Feldmann & Carrie Schweitzer (2010). "The oldest shrimp (Devonian: Famennian) and remarkable preservation of soft tissue". Journal of Crustacean Biology 30 (4): 629–635. doi:10.1651/09-3268.1. 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Thomas A. Hegna, Ren Dong (2010). "Two new "notostracans", Chenops gen. nov. and Jeholops gen. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: ?Notostraca) from the Yixian Formation, Northeastern China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 886–894. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00232.x. 
5. ↑ Siveter, D. J.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Siveter, D. J.; Sutton, M. D. (2010). "An exceptionally preserved myodocopid ostracod from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1687): 1539–44. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2122. PMC 2871837. PMID 20106847. 
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Poinar Jr., George (2010). "Cascoplecia insolitis (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research 31 (1): 71–76. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007. 
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Jaime Ortega-Blanco; Alexander P. Rasnitsyn; Xavier Delclòs (2010). "A new family of ceraphronoid wasps from Early Cretaceous Álava Amber, Spain" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (2): 265–276. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0014. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Carsten BRAUCKMANN, Oscar F. GALLEGO, Norbert HAUSCHKE, Rafael G. MARTINS-NETO, Elke GROENING, Jan-M. ILGER, María B. LARA (2010). "First Late Triassic Record of a Paleoentomofauna from South America (Malargüe Basin, Mendoza Province, Argentina)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 915–924. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00230.x. 
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 HUANG Diying, André NEL, Joël MINET (2010). "A New Family of Moths from the Middle Jurassic (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 874–885. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00233.x. 
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Peter Vršanský, Ren Dong, Shih ChungKun (2010). "Nakridletia ord.n. – enigmatic insect parasites support sociality and endothermy of pterosaurs". Amba projekty 8 (1): 1–16. 
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 793–808. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x. 
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying, Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of 'Higher' Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 751–755. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x. 
13. ↑ Prokop, J.; Nel, A. (2010). "New griffenfly, Bohemiatupus elegans from the Late Carboniferous of western Bohemia in the Czech Republic (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Meganeuridae)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 (1–2): 183–188. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697655. Retrieved 26 August 2011. 
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danil S. Aristov, Sergey Yu. Storozhenko, Cui Yingying (2010). "Review of the Permian Camptoneuritidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 756–761. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00245.x. 
15. ↑ Pérez-de la Fuente, R.; Nel, A.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X. (2010). "A new Early Cretaceous snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from El Soplao amber (Spain)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 (1-2): 108–115. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697644. 
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Konstantin Nadein, Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 772–782. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x. 
17. ↑ Guglielmino, A.; Olmi, M. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of Deinodryinus, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys 130: 495–504. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1326. PMC 3260777. PMID 22259295. 
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Stylianos Chatzimanolis; Michael S. Engel; Alfred F. Newton; David A. Grimaldi (2010). "New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)" (PDF). Cretaceous Research 31 (1): 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009. Retrieved 14 January 2011. 
19. ↑ Enrique Peñalver, Jaime Ortega-Blanco, André Nel, Xavier Delclòs (2010). "Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 809–827. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x. 
20. ↑ Dany Azar, André Nel, Julian F. Petrulevicius (2010). "First Psocodean (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Cretaceous Amber of New Jersey". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 762–767. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00255.x. 
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Ren Dong, Conrad C. Labandeira, Shih ChungKun (2010). "New Mesozoic Mesopsychidae (Mecoptera) from Northeastern China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 720–731. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00244.x. 
22. ↑ Julian F. Petrulevicius, Dany Azar, André Nel (2010). "A New Thorny Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from the Early Cretaceous Amber of Lebanon". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 828–833. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00242.x. 
23. ↑ Selden, Paul A., Huang Diying (2010). "The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China". Naturwissenschaften 97 (5): 449–459. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..449S. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0649-z. PMID 20140419.