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Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida): Composition, Systematics and Relationships
The composition of the order Miomoptera is considered at the family level, and the system of the family Permosialidae is revised. Keys are provided to families of the order and to genera and species of the fam...
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A New Species of the Family Electrotomidae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Tenthredinoidea) from the Baltic Amber
The species Electrotoma kopylovi sp. nov. is described from a larva (prepupa) from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber. It is the second find of a fossil of the family Electrotomidae. The new species differs from the o...
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New and Little Known Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the Upper Permian of Mongolia and the Middle or Upper Triassic of Kyrgyzstan
The composition of the family Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the Upper Permian deposits of Mongolia and Kazakhstan is revised. Permosialis postuma sp. nov. and P. virgata sp. nov. are described and
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Revision of Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the Uppermost Lower and Lower Middle Permian of European Russia
The generic and species composition of Permosialidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida) from the uppermost Lower and lower Middle Permian of European Russia is discussed. Permosialis defurcata Martynova, 1952, P. brevifur...
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A Review of Blattinopsida (Insecta) and Flora of Latest Early and Early Middle Permian in European Russia
The composition of the order Blattinopsida (Insecta) and plants in the later Early and early Middle Permian of the European Russia is reviewed. Glaphyrophlebia semipenna sp. nov. and G. glinka sp. nov. are descri...
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Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”
We described ten nymph specimens of an insect, Mesophthirus engeli (incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ecto...
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New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of European Russia
Glaphyrophlebia vaga sp. nov., G. rara sp. nov., and G. kamaensis sp. nov. (Insecta: Blattinopsida, Blattinopsidae) are described from the Middle Permian locality Tyulkino in European Russia (Ufimian Stage of Per...
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Erratum to: Paleontological Journal
An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121340013
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New Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) in the Permian of the Pechora Basin (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Context of Landscape and Vegetation Evolution
Permian Blattinopsida in the Vorkuta Group of the Pechora Basin (Komi Republic, northern Russia) are reviewed. Glaphyrophlebia komia sp. nov., G. vorkutensis sp. nov., and G. borea sp. nov. are described from the...
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New and Little Known Blattinopsidae (Insecta: Blattinopsida) from the Middle Permian of Russia
The fauna of the insect order Blattinopsida in the Soyana and Tikhie Gory localities (Middle Permian of Russia) is discussed. Glaphyrophlebia iva sp. nov. from Soyana is described, G. subcostalis (Martynov, 1928)...
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Review of the Family Tococladidae Carpenter (Insecta: Eoblattida) from the Permian of North America and Europe
The family Tococladidae is transferred to the order Eoblattida. The family consists of three Permian genera: Tococladus Carpenter, 1966 from USA, France and Russia, Tshekardocladus Rasnitsyn et Aristov, 2015 from...
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Cognition is not a process of mastering truths, i.e., grains of ultimate knowledge. Even in the details, cognition only allows us to get closer to the ultimate truth, not to reach it. Consequently, the real to...
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The Khasurty Fossil Insect Lagerstätte
The Khasurty locality (Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia, Russia) is one of the largest fossil insect sites in the region. Over the entire period of study, more than 6000 insect imprints have been collected he...
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Insect Diversity from the Carboniferous to Recent
Changes in insect biodiversity in terms of the number of families throughout the history of the class are described. The results are compared with those published recently by other researchers and possible rea...
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New Angarosphecidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northeastern China
Two new species of the family Angarosphecidae, Angarosphex saxosus sp. nov. and Vitimosphex vividus sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China are described and illustrated. Generi...
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Digestive System of the Early Cretaceous Insect Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko (Insecta, ?Aphaniptera, Saurophthiroidea)
Information on the internal organization of Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko, 1976 from the Baissa locality in the western Transbaikalia is described and supplemented with the data on its digestive system. The ...
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New sepulcids (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Asia: II. Ghilarellinae and Trematothoracinae
Five new species of sepulcids (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae) are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia and Mongolia (localities Khasurty, Baissa, and Bon-Tsagan). The new species belong to the subfam...
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Tracheal system and biology of the Early Cretaceous Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko, 1976 (Insecta, ?Aphaniptera, Saurophthiroidea stat. nov.)
The tracheal system of Saurophthiridae is described based on female fossils of Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko, 1976. Three very wide tracheal trunks are found running dorsolaterally along each side of the bod...
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New sepulcids (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Asia. I. Parapamphiliinae and Xyelulinae
Three new species of sepulcids (Hymenoptera: Sepulcidae) are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Khasurty, Transbaikalia: Pamparaphilius khasurtensis sp. nov., Micramphilius mirabilipennis sp. nov., and Onokho...
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Dynamics of insect diversity during the Early and Middle Permian
The composition of insect families in the Early and Middle Permian is analyzed to reveal the dynamics of taxonomic diversity using the approach developed earlier (Aristov et al., 2013). The efficiency of the m...
