A new rock crawler in Baltic amber, with comments on the order (Mantophasmatodea, Mantophasmatidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Fossil rock crawler

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3431

By

Engel, Michael S.

Grimaldi, David A.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2004

Notes

Caption title.

"Febrary 27, 2004."

A new fossil species of the recently described insect order Mantophasmatodea (Polyneoptera: Anartioptera), the "African rock crawlers," is described and figured from Eocene (Lutetian) Baltic amber. Adicophasma spinosa, new genus and species, differs from the only other fossil of this lineage, Raptophasma, by the strong spination of the fore- and midlegs, broad abdominal segments, and absence of dorsal carinae on the profemur, resembling in these respects the living African genera Mantophasma and Praedatophasma. The position of the fossil and of the order among polyneopterous insects is briefly discussed.

Subjects

Adicophasma spinosa , Amber fossils , Baltic Sea Region , Eocene , Insects, Fossil , Mantophasmatodea , Paleontology

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3431 2004

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2004)431<0001:ANRCIB>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 54509540