2009 in arthropod paleontology

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This list of fossil arthropods described in 2009 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods that have been described during the year 2009. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

Anomalocaridids

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Schinderhannes[1]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Kühl, Briggs, & Rust

Lower Devonian

Hunsrück Slate

 Germany

Arachnids

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Palaeoperenethis[2]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Selden & Penney

Ypresian

Horsefly Lagerstätte, British Columbia

 Canada

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Agulla mineralensis[3]

sp nov

Valid

Engel

Late Barstovian

Stewart Valley Group

 USA

only described Neogene snakefly fossil

Allorapisma[4]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Makarkin & Archibald

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA

Apis (Cascapis) nearctica[5]

sp nov

Valid

Engel, Hinojosa-Diaz, & Rasnitsyn

Middle Miocene

 USA

The first fossil Apis from North America.

Aspidopleura[6]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Gibson

Eocene

Baltic amber

Brevivulva[6]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Gibson

Eocene

Baltic amber

Cimbrophlebia brooksi[7]

sp nov

Valid

Archibald

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA

A Cimbrophlebiid scorpionfly

Cimbrophlebia flabelliformis[7]

sp nov

Valid

Archibald

Ypresian

Kamloops Group, McAbee, British Columbia

 Canada

Cimbrophlebia leahyi[7]

sp nov

Valid

Archibald

Ypresian

Kamloops Group, McAbee, British Columbia

 Canada

Cimbrophlebia westae[7]

sp nov

Valid

Archibald

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA

Denaeaspis[8]

gen et sp nov

valid

Chaboo & Engel

Lutetian

Parachute Member, Green River Formation

 USA

One of the oldest tortoise beetles

Eosacantha[8]

gen et sp nov

valid

Chaboo & Engel

Lutetian

Parachute Member, Green River Formation

 USA

One of the oldest tortoise beetles

Gesomyrmex germanicus[9]

sp nov

Valid

Dlussky, Wappler, & Wedmann

Lutetian

Eckfeld Maar

 Germany

A Formicinae ant

Gesomyrmex pulcher[9]

sp nov

Valid

Dlussky, Wappler, & Wedmann

Lutetian

Messel Formation

 Germany

A Formicinae ant

Leptofoenus pittfieldae[10]

sp nov

Valid

Engel

Burdigalian

Dominican amber

 Dominican Republic

Metapelma archetypon[6]

sp nov

Valid

Gibson

Eocene

Baltic amber

Neanaperiallus[6]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Gibson

Eocene

Baltic amber

Nesagapostemon[11]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Engel

Burdigalian

Dominican amber

 Dominican Republic

Nymphes georgei[12]

sp nov

Valid

Archibald, Makarkin, & Ansorge

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA

Oligochlora semirugosa[11]

sp nov

Valid

Engel

Burdigalian

Dominican amber

 Dominican Republic

Principiala rudgwickensis[13]

sp nov

valid

Jepson, Makarkin, & Jarzembowski

Barremian

Upper Weald Clay

 England

An Ithonidae lacewing,
a second species of Principiala

Proceratium eocenicum[14]

Sp nov

Valid

Dlussky

Late Eocene

Baltic amber

 Russia

A ponerine ant

Pronymphes hoffeinsorum[12]

Sp nov

Valid

Archibald, Makarkin, Ansorge

Priabonian

Yantarny [=Palmnicken], Kaliningradskaya Oblast’

 Russia

Termitaradus mitnicki[15]

sp nov

Valid

Engel

Burdigalian

Dominican amber

 Dominican Republic

A termite bug

References

  1. Kühl, G; Briggs, DE; Rust, J (February 2009). "A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany". Science. 323 (5915): 7713. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..771K. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 19197061. doi:10.1126/science.1166586.
  2. Selden, P.A.; Penney, D. (2009). "A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Contributions to Natural History. 12: 1269–1282.
  3. Engel, M. S. (2009). "A Miocene snakefly from Stewart Valley, Nevada (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae)". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 112 (4): 211–214. doi:10.1660/062.112.0409.
  4. Makarkin, V.N.; Archibald, S.B. (2009). "A new genus and first Cenozoic fossil record of moth lacewings (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) from the Early Eocene of North America" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2063: 55–63. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  5. Michael S. Engel, I. A. Hinojosa-Diaz & A. P. Rasnitsyn (2009). "A honey bee from the Miocene of Nevada and the biogeography of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apini)" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 60 (3): 23–38. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Gibson, G.A.P. (2009). "Description of three new genera and four new species of Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) from Baltic amber, with discussion of their relationships to extant taxa". ZooKeys. 20: 175–214. doi:10.3897/zookeys.20.161. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Archibald, S.B. (2009). "New Cimbrophlebiidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Early Eocene at McAbee, British Columbia, Canada and Republic, Washington, USA" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2249: 51–62. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  8. 1 2 Chaboo, C. S.; Engel, M. S. (2009). "Eocene tortoise beetles from the Green River Formation in Colorado, U.S.A. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)". Systematic Entomology. 34 (2): 202–209. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00456.x.
  9. 1 2 Dlussky, GM; Wappler, T; Wedmann, S (2009). "Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities". Zootaxa. 2031: 1–20.
  10. Engel, M.S. (2005). "The first fossil leptofoenine wasp (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): A new species of Leptofoenusin Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic". ZooKeys. 13: 57–66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.13.159.
  11. 1 2 Engel, M.S. (2009). "Two new halictine bees in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)". ZooKeys. 29: 1–12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.29.257.
  12. 1 2 Archibald, S.B.; Makarkin,V.N.; Ansorge, J. (2009). "New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2157: 59–68.
  13. Jepson, JE; Makarkin, VN; Jarzembowski, E (2009). "New lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden supergroup of Southern England". Cretaceous Research. 30: 1325–1338. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.07.012.
  14. Dlussky, G. M. (2009). "The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Late Eocene Ambers of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 43: 1043–1086.
  15. Engel, M.S. (2009). "A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae)". ZooKeys. 25: 61–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.25.267.
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