2010 in arthropod paleontology

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2010 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that have been described during the year 2010. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

List of years in arthropod paleontology
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In science
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In reptile paleontology
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In paleobotany
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In paleoentomology
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In paleomalacology
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In archosaur paleontology
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In mammal paleontology
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In paleoichthyology
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Dinocaridida edit

Newly named Dinocaridids
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Amplectobelua stephenensis[1]

Sp nov

Valid

Daley & Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

  Canada

A radiodont

 
Amplectobelua stephenensis (frontal appendage)

Caryosyntrips[1]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Daley & Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

  Canada

A radiodont, type species C. serratus

 
Caryosyntrips serratus (frontal appendage)

Tamisiocaris[2][3]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Daley & Peel

Cambrian

Buen Formation
Kinzers Formation[4]

  Greenland
  United States[4]

A suspension-feeding radiodont.[3] The type species is T. borealis

 
Tamisiocaris borealis (frontal appendage)

Newly named crustaceans edit

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aciculopoda[5]

Fam, gen et Sp nov

Valid

Feldmann & Schweitzer

Devonian

  USA

Oldest known shrimp.

Chenops[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Hegna & Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation

  China

A notostracan

 
Chenops yixianensis

Jeholops[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Hegna & Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation

  China

A notostracan

 
Jeholops (left)

Nasunaris[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, & Sutton

Silurian

  UK

An ostracod

Pseudotealliocaris holthuisi[8]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Irham, Schram & Vonk

Mississippian

Leitchfield Formation

Moved to the genus Tealliocaris in 2013[9]

Newly named insects edit

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Bohemiatupus elegans[16]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Prokop & Nel

Westphalian

Kladno Formation

  Czech Republic

Camptoneurites soyanensis[17]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

Kazanian

Soyana locality

  Russia

A Notopteran

Cantabroraphidia[18]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Pérez-de la Fuente, Nel,
Peñalver, & Delclòs

Albian

Las Peñosas Formation, Cave of El Soplao

  Spain

A mesoraphidiid snakefly;
The type species is C. marcanoi

 
Cantabroraphidia marcanoi

Cascopleciidae[19]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Poinar

Early Cretaceous

Burmese amber

  Myanmar

A flower-visiting Bibionomorpha fly.
Type genus Cascoplecia, type species C. insolitis

 
Cascoplecia

Crepidodera decolorata[20]

sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

  Ukraine

A flea beetle

Deinodryinus? aptianus[21]

sp nov

Valid

Olmi, Rasnitsyn, & Guglielmino

Aptian

Khurilt rock unit

  Mongolia

A dryinid wasp.

 
Deinodryinus? aptianus

Ektatotricha[22]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

  Myanmar

Electroatopos[22]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

  Myanmar

Epiaeschna pseudoheros[23]

Sp nov

valid

Nel & Petrulevicius

Chattian

Les Figons

  France

An Aeshnid dragonfly

 
Epiaeschna pseudoheros

Holcorpa dillhoffi[24]

sp nov

valid

Archibald

Ypresian

McAbee fossil site

  Canada

A holcorpid scorpionfly

Iberoevania[25]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Amber

  Spain

An evaniid

Jerseyempheria[26]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius

Cretaceous

New Jersey amber

  USA

A empheriid psocodean

Kachinus[22]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

  Myanmar

Lichnomesopsyche[27]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

Middle Jurassic

Jiulongshan Formation

  China

A mesopsychid mecopteran

Limnoxenus olenus[28]

Sp nov

Valid

Fikacek, Prokop, & Nel

Chattian

Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation

  France

A water scavenger beetle

 
Limnoxenus olenus

Manobiomorpha[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

  Ukraine

A flea beetle

Mendozachorista[11]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke,
Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara

Late Triassic

Llantenes Formation

  Argentina

The species is M. volkheimeri

Mesokristensenia[12]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Huang, Nel, & Minet

Middle Jurassic

Daohugou Beds

  China

Microcostaphron[10]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Álava amber

  Spain

The species is M. parvus

Nylanderia pygmaea[29]

Comb nov

Valid

(Mayr)

Middle Eocene

European amber

  Europe

A formicine ant,
new combination for Paratrechina pygmaea

 
Nylanderia pygmaea

Paleophaedon[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

  Ukraine

A chrysomeline leaf beetle

Parazila[13]

gen et sp nov

Synonymized

Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

Late Jurassic

  Russia

A fly

Psyllototus[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

  Ukraine

A flea beetle

Radiophron[10]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Álava amber

  Spain

The species is R. ibericus

Raptorapax[30]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel

Early Cretaceous

Amber

  Lebanon

A rhachiberothid lacewing

Sociala[14]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Vršanský

Albian

Amber

  France

A cockroach

Sapho legrandi[23]

Sp nov

valid

Nel & Petrulevicius

Chattian

Les Figons

  France

A Calopterygid damselfly

 
Sapho legrandi

Tyulkinia[17]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

Kungurian

Tyulkino locality

  Russia

A Notopteran

Vitimopsyche kozlovi[27]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

Early Cretaceous

Jehol Biota

  China

A mesopsychid mecopteran

Vosila[13]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

Middle Jurassic

  China

A fly

Weiwoboa[15]

Fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński

Lower Eocene

  China

Newly named spiders edit

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Eoplectreurys[31]

Valid

  • Selden
  • Huang

Middle Jurassic

Daohugou Beds

The oldest known haplogyne spider.

Trilobites edit

Newly named trilobites
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Pseudocybele paranasuta[32]

Sp nov

Valid

McAdams & Adrain

Early Ordovician

Fillmore Limestone

  United States

A member of the family Pliomeridae.

Notes edit

References edit

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  12. ^ a b Huang Diying; André Nel; Joël Minet (2010). "A New Family of Moths from the Middle Jurassic (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 874–885. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..874D. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00233.x. S2CID 85206571.
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  15. ^ a b Lin Qibin; Jacek Szwedo; Huang Diying; Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of 'Higher' Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 751–755. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..751L. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x. S2CID 130439050.
  16. ^ Prokop, J.; Nel, A. (2010). "New griffenfly, Bohemiatupus elegans from the Late Carboniferous of western Bohemia in the Czech Republic (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Meganeuridae)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 183–188. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697655. S2CID 84698984. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  17. ^ a b Danil S. Aristov; Sergey Yu. Storozhenko; Cui Yingying (2010). "Review of the Permian Camptoneuritidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 756–761. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..756A. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00245.x. S2CID 130440552.
  18. ^ Pérez-de la Fuente, R.; Nel, A.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X. (2010). "A new Early Cretaceous snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from El Soplao amber (Spain)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 108–115. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697644. S2CID 84967744.
  19. ^ Poinar Jr., George (2010). "Cascoplecia insolitis (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 71–76. Bibcode:2010CrRes..31...71P. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007.
  20. ^ a b c d Konstantin Nadein; Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..772N. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x. S2CID 85383059.
  21. ^ Guglielmino, A.; Olmi, M. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of Deinodryinus, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys (130): 495–504. Bibcode:2011ZooK..130..495G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1326. PMC 3260777. PMID 22259295.
  22. ^ a b c Stylianos Chatzimanolis; Michael S. Engel; Alfred F. Newton; David A. Grimaldi (2010). "New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 77–84. Bibcode:2010CrRes..31...77C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009.
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  25. ^ Enrique Peñalver; Jaime Ortega-Blanco; André Nel; Xavier Delclòs (2010). "Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 809–827. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..809P. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x. S2CID 83716591.
  26. ^ Dany Azar; André Nel; Julian F. Petrulevicius (2010). "First Psocodean (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Cretaceous Amber of New Jersey". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 762–767. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..762A. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00255.x. S2CID 129505225.
  27. ^ a b Ren Dong; Conrad C. Labandeira; Shih ChungKun (2010). "New Mesozoic Mesopsychidae (Mecoptera) from Northeastern China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 720–731. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..720D. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00244.x. S2CID 86743175.
  28. ^ Fikacek, M.; Prokop, J.; Nel, A. (2010). "Fossil water scavenger beetles of the subtribe Hydrobiusina (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the Late Oligocene locality of Aix-en-Provence (France)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 50: 445–458.
  29. ^ LaPolla, J.S.; Dlussky, G.M. (2010). "Review of fossil Prenolepis genus-group species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 112 (2): 258–273. doi:10.4289/0013-8797-112.2.258. S2CID 86102815.
  30. ^ Julian F. Petrulevicius; Dany Azar; André Nel (2010). "A New Thorny Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from the Early Cretaceous Amber of Lebanon". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 828–833. Bibcode:2010AcGlS..84..828P. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00242.x. S2CID 129372839.
  31. ^ Selden, Paul A.; Huang Diying (2010). "The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (5): 449–459. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..449S. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0649-z. PMID 20140419. S2CID 24576304.
  32. ^ Neo E. B. McAdams; Jonathan M. Adrain (2010). "A new species of the Lower Ordovician pliomerid trilobite Pseudocybele and its biostratigraphic significance" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2550: 21–38. doi:10.5281/zenodo.196803. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-18. Retrieved 2018-02-17.