A New Fossil of Necrotauliidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation of China and Its Taxonomic Significance

Yujia Liu; Weiting Zhang; Yunzhi Yao; Dong Ren

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114968

A New Fossil of Necrotauliidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation of China and Its Taxonomic Significance

PLoS One. 2014 Dec 10;9(12):e114968. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114968. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Yujia Liu¹, Weiting Zhang², Yunzhi Yao¹, Dong Ren¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China.
² Geoscience Museum, Shijiazhuang University of Economics, Shijiazhuang, 050031, China.

Abstract

Background: Acisarcuatus variradius gen. et sp. nov., an extinct new species representing a new genus, is described from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation in Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China.

Methodology/principal findings: In this paper, we revised the diagnosis of Necrotauliidae Handlirsch, 1906. One new genus and species of Necrotauliidae is described. An analysis based on the fossil morphological characters clarified the taxonomic status of the new taxa.

Conclusions/significance: New fossil evidence supports the viewpoint that the family Necrotauliidae belongs to the Integripalpia.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Classification
Fossils
Insecta* / anatomy & histology
Insecta* / classification
Male

Grants and funding

This research was funded by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2012CB821900), The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31372242, 41272006, 31230065, 41402009), the Project of Outstanding Young Talents of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No. CIT&TCD201304163), the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China (No. 131021), the General Program of Science and Technology Development Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission of China (No. KM201210028016), the Project of Great Wall Scholars and KEY Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Project (grant KZ201310028033), and the PhD Research Startup Foundation of Shijiazhuang University of Economics (No. BQ201319). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.