Haug Joachim T, Linhart Simon, Baranov Viktor, Haug Carolin
Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
GeoBio-Center at LMU, München, Germany.
Insect Sci. 2025 Apr;32(2):712-718. doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.13410. Epub 2024 Jul 15.
We report a 35 million-year-old lacewing larva from Ukrainian amber. This insect larva has a morphology up to now only known from 100 million-year-old amber. Therefore, this morphology survived more than 60 million years longer than previously assumed. Our find contradicts the common notion that the fauna 35 million years ago was already very modern.
我们报道了一只来自乌克兰琥珀的3500万年前的草蛉幼虫。这种昆虫幼虫的形态迄今为止仅在1亿年前的琥珀中被发现过。因此,这种形态的存活时间比之前认为的要长6000多万年。我们的发现与普遍观点相悖,即3500万年前的动物群已经非常现代。