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

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.

KEYWORDS:

• Insecta
• Heteroptera
• Lygaeoidea
• gen. et sp. nov
• Palaeogene
• dating

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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