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Historical Biology
An International Journal of Paleobiology
Volume 33, 2021 - Issue 7
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Research Article

The first Malcidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) from the earliest Eocene Oise amber

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Pages 1024-1028 | Received 27 Sep 2019, Accepted 28 Sep 2019, Published online: 08 Oct 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Eochauliops longicornis gen. et sp. n., first fossil Malcidae, is described from the lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (France). Together with the previous discovery of a Blissidae in the same amber, it suggests that the Lygaeoidea were already rather diverse during the Palaeocene, even if the Mesozoic record of this superfamily remains uncertain and scarce.

Acknowledgments

We greatly thank T.J. Henry for his great help in the family attribution of the fossil. Also we thank two anonymous referees for their useful comments on the first version of this paper. We also thank Gael De Ploëg for his crucial help in the collect and study of the fossil insects of Oise amber. We thank the Lafarge-Granulat company for help with the fossil sampling and the Langlois-Meurinne family for the authorisation of working on their property.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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