2025 in paleoentomology
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This list of 2025 in paleoentomology records new fossil insect taxa that are to be described during the year, as well as documents significant paleoentomology discoveries and events which occurred during that year.
Clade Coleopterida
[edit]Coleopterans
[edit]Coleopteran research
[edit]- Click beetle larvae belonging to the subfamily Pityobiinae and likely to the tribe Tibionemini are identified in the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Kachin amber from Myanmar by Kundrata et al. (2025).[1]
Hymenopterans
[edit]Apocrita
[edit]Vespoidea
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov |
Valid |
Wang, Rasnitsyn, Perkovsky & Vilhelmsen in Wang et al. |
A member of the family Falsiformicidae. |
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Sp. nov |
Valid |
Wang, Rasnitsyn, Perkovsky & Vilhelmsen in Wang et al. |
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
Kachin amber |
A member of the family Falsiformicidae. |
Clade Palaeoptera
[edit]Odonatopterans
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Nel, Nam & Jouault |
A "megapodagrionid" damselfly. The type species is K. coloratus. |
References
[edit]- ^ Kundrata, R.; Rosa, S. P.; Triskova, K.; Packova, G.; Hoffmannova, J.; Brus, J. (2025). "Click beetle larvae from Cretaceous Burmese amber represent an ancient Gondwanan lineage". Scientific Reports. 15 (1). 1125. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-80950-w.
- ^ a b Wang, Z.; Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Perkovsky, E. E.; Vilhelmsen, L.; Gao, T. (2025). "New wasps of †Falsiformicidae from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 98: 1–18. doi:10.3897/jhr.98.136200.
- ^ Nel, S. B.; Nam, G.-S.; Jouault, C. (2025). "A new Early Cretaceous 'megapodagrionid' genus (Zygoptera: Coenagriomorpha) from the Jinju Formation of the Republic of Korea". Palaeoworld. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2025.200908.