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PREHISTORIC BUGS AND INSECTS

Added on: 25th Feb 2016

 

EKTATOTRICHA

Ektatotricha

Ektatotricha is an extinct, monotypic genus of antlike stone

beetle in the family Staphylinidae containing the single species

Ektatotricha paradoxa. The most fascinating part of this one though

is its name since it’s a combination of the Greek ektatos, for

“extended,” which refers to the visible fifth and sixth abdominal

sterna, and tricha, meaning “hair.” The species name,

paradoxa, is also from the Greek paradoxon for “riddle.”

 

 

CANTABRORAPHIDIA

Cantabroraphidia

Cantabroraphidia is an extinct genus of snakefly in the family

Mesoraphidiidae. The genus is solely known from fossil ambers

found in Cantabria, in northern Spain, dating to the Albian age

of the Early Cretaceous Period.

 

 

AMARANTORAPHIDIA

Amarantoraphidia

Amarantoraphidia is an extinct genus of snakefly in the family

Mesoraphidiidae. The genus is solely known from the Early

Cretaceous, from the subdivision known as the Albian age,

which makes it over 100 million years old.

 

 

JURAHYLOBITTACUS

Jurahylobittacus

Jurahylobittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family

Bittacidae, which makes it a brother to Formosibittacus. It is

known only from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation, part

of the Daohugou Beds, near the village of Daohugou in Ningcheng

County, in north eastern China.

 

 

FORMOSIBITTACUS

Formosibittacus

Formosibittacus is another prehistoric and currently extinct genus

of hanging fly in the family Bittacidae and it is estimated to be

around 170 million years old.

 

 

BOHEMIATUPUS

Bohemiatupus

This ancient and extinct genus of griffen fly takes its name from

the land known as Bohemia, the historical central European region

and the meganeurid genus Tupus, to which Bohemiatupus is related.

As for its age? Way older than any historical human construction.

 

 

RHYNIOGNATHA

Rhyniognatha

Rhyniognatha hirsti is the world’s oldest known insect. It emerged

during the Early Devonian Period, around 400 million years ago, when

Earth’s first terrestrial ecosystems were still being formed.

 

 

ALLORAPISMA

Allorapisma

Allorapisma is an extinct genus of lacewing in the moth lacewings

family Ithonidae. The genus is solely known from two Eocene fossils

found in North America. At the time of its description the genus

was composed of a single species, Allorapisma chuorum.

 


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