Liu Sulin, Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China.
Zookeys. 2014 Dec 19(466):77-94. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.466.8047. eCollection 2014.
Two new species of Mongolbittacus Petrulevičius, Huang & Ren, 2007, Mongolbittacusspeciosus sp. n. and Mongolbittacusoligophlebius sp. n., and two new species of Exilibittacus Yang, Ren & Shih, 2012, Exilibittacusfoliaceus sp. n. and Exilibittacusplagioneurus sp. n., in the family Bittacidae, are described and illustrated based on five well-preserved fossil specimens. These specimens were collected from the late Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. These new findings enhance our understanding of the morphological characters of early hangingflies and highlight the diversity of bittacids in the Mid Mesozoic ecosystems.
基于五件保存完好的化石标本,描述并图示了2007年Petrulevičius、黄迪颖和任东建立的蒙古蝎蛉属Mongolbittacus的两个新物种,即丽蒙古蝎蛉Mongolbittacus speciosus sp. n.和寡脉蒙古蝎蛉Mongolbittacus oligophlebius sp. n.,以及2012年杨定、任东和石福明建立的瘦蝎蛉属Exilibittacus的两个新物种,即叶状瘦蝎蛉Exilibittacus foliaceus sp. n.和斜脉瘦蝎蛉Exilibittacus plagioneurus sp. n.。这些标本采自中国内蒙古道虎沟中侏罗世晚期的九龙山组。这些新发现增进了我们对早期蝎蛉形态特征的理解,并凸显了中生代中期生态系统中蝎蛉科的多样性。