Title
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
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Amber fossils
,
Baltic Sea Region
,
Eocene
,
Insects, Fossil
,
Mantophasmatodea
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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
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