The first fossil wedge-shaped beetle (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from the middle Jurassic of China

  • Yun Hsiao Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, No. 27, Lane 113, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, and State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Ecology and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong
  • Yali Yu State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Ecology and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong and College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Xisanhuanbeilu 105, Haidian District, Beijing 100048
  • Congshuang Deng State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Ecology and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong and College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Xisanhuanbeilu 105, Haidian District, Beijing 100048
  • Hong Pang State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Ecology and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.277
Keywords: Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, new fossil taxa, conjecture of natural history, Middle Jurassic

Abstract

A new species of Ripiphoridae Gemminger & Harold, 1870, Archaeoripiphorus nuwa gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from a well-preserved impression fossil from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation collected at Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, representing the oldest documented occurrence of the Ripiphoridae described from the Mesozoic era. It shares several characters belonging to two basal ripiphorid subfamilies (Pelecotominae and Ptilophorinae), but it cannot be attributed to either of them and is herein placed as Subfamily incertae sedis. An overall similarity between Archaeoripiphorus gen. nov. and Recent Pelecotominae and the occurrence of wood-boring beetles in the same Formation implies a similar parasitoid host preference in xylophagous beetles for A. nuwa gen. et sp. nov., putting a spotlight on a potential host-parasitoid relationship in the Mesozoic.

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2017-02-14
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Hsiao, Y., Yu, Y., Deng, C., & Pang, H. (2017). The first fossil wedge-shaped beetle (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from the middle Jurassic of China. European Journal of Taxonomy, (277). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.277
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