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A new peculiar species of the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Cretaceous Álava amber (Spain)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2018

Iwona Kania ,
Wiesław Krzemiński  and
Antonio Arillo
Iwona Kania*
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Biology; University of Rzeszów; Zelwerowicza 4; 35-601 Rzeszów; Poland. E-mail: ikania@univ.rzeszow.pl
Wiesław Krzemiński
Affiliation:
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17; 31 – 016 Kraków, Poland.
Antonio Arillo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid 28040, Spain.
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

Helius spiralensis sp. nov., is a very peculiar species of the genus Helius (Diptera: Limoniidae), with a characteristic morphology of hypopygium not found in other representatives of this genus. This is the second Helius species described from Early Cretaceous Álava amber (Spain), and one of the oldest representatives of the genus.

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fossil insectsHelius spiralensis sp. nov.inclusionsmorphologynew speciestaxonomy
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 107 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber , June 2016 , pp. 231 - 237
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