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A New Cockroach Genus of the Family Fuziidae from Northeastern China (Insecta: Blattida)
Author(s) -
GUO Yinxia,
REN Dong
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2011.00418.x
Subject(s) - genus , china , biology , zoology , inner mongolia , cockroach , key (lock) , geography , paleontology , ecology , archaeology
A new genus and two new species of fossil Fuziidae are described and illustrated: Parvifuzia gen. nov., P. marsa sp. nov. and P. brava sp. nov. Both species were collected from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan, Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia of China. In conjunction with Fuzia Vršanský, Liang et Ren, 2009, the present findings allow us to demonstrate that members of the family were morphologically diverse, with body length ranging from medium (17 mm) in Fuzia to small (9.7 mm) in the present genus. Wing venation of F. dadao is complicated, but simple in the present species, and apex of male's cerci are sharp and forceps‐like in F. dadao , but strongly curved inward and round in the new genus.