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New genus and species of the extinct aphid family Szelegiewicziidae and their implications for aphid evolution

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Recently, we are witnessing an increased appreciation for the importance of the fossil record in phylogenetics and testing various evolutionary hypotheses. However, this approach brings many challenges, especially for such a complex group as aphids and requires a thorough morphological analysis of the extinct groups. The extinct aphid family Szelegiewicziidae is supposed to be one of the oviparous lineages in aphid evolution. New material from the rock fossil deposits of Shar Teg (Upper Jurassic of Mongolia), Baissa (Lower Cretaceous of Siberia-Russia), and Burmese amber (Upper Cretaceous of Myanmar) allowed us to undertake a more detailed examination of the morphological features and carry out an analysis of the taxonomical composition and evolution of the family. This led us to the conclusion that evolution of the body plan and wing structure was similar in different, often not closely related groups, probably as a result of convergence. Additionally, we present a description of a new genus and two species (Tinaphis mongolica Żyła &Wegierek, sp. nov., and Feroorbis burmensis Wegierek & Huang, gen. et sp. nov.) that belong to this family.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Dimitrij E. Shcherbakov for lending us the rock fossil material. We are very grateful to Josh Jenkins Shaw for checking the English language of the manuscript. We thank three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments that helped to improve the manuscript. DŻ was co-supported by the National Science Centre (N N303 811140). DYH has been supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Science (XDB18030501), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016YFC0600406), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91514302).

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  1. Department of Zoology, Silesian University, Bankowa 9, 40-007, Katowice, Poland

    Piotr Wegierek & Agnieszka Homan

  2. Biosystematics Section, Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Dagmara Żyła

  3. Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Chenyang Cai

  4. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Rd., Nanjing, 210008, China

    Chenyang Cai & Diying Huang

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Wegierek, P., Żyła, D., Homan, A. et al. New genus and species of the extinct aphid family Szelegiewicziidae and their implications for aphid evolution. Sci Nat 104, 95 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1517-x

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