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ABSTRACT
The earliest Eocene Eochauliops longicornis gen. et sp. n., first fossil Malcidae, is described from the amber of Oise (France). Together with the previous discovery of a species of 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 help in the establishing family position of the fossil. Also we thank three anonymous referees for their useful comments on the first and second 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 authorization of working on their property.
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