A new genus and species, Hsiufua chaoi Zhang et Wang, is established based on a forewing from the Middle Jurassic Haifanggou Formation in Inner Mongolia, China and attributed to Campterophlebiidae, Isophlebioidea, Odonata. It is the largest odonate known in China and the fourth in the world in terms of forewing length. The maximum size (based on forewing length) of Odonata is smaller in the Permian than in the Mesozoic which is probably due to competition for prey between Odonata and Protodonata in the Permian. The reason that the maximum size of Jurassic odonates is larger than that of their extant relatives is most probably less competition and lower predation pressure from contemporary aerial vertebrates.
ZHANG HaiChunZHENG DaRanWANG BoFANG YanJARZEMBOWSKI Edmund A
根据产于内蒙古宁城县中-上侏罗统道虎沟化石层的一块昆虫化石,建立1新种——拉氏道虎沟树蜂(Daohugoa rasnitsyni Ding and Zhang Haichun sp.nov.),归入道虎沟树蜂科(Daohugoidae Rasnitsyn and Zhang,2004)。根据新材料,对道虎沟树蜂科的特征进行修订。
描述了产于内蒙古宁城中-上侏罗统道虎沟化石层的两块魔蜂科雌蜂化石。根据其中一块标本建立1新种——拉氏冠腹魔蜂(Stephanogaster rasnitsyni Ding and Zhang sp.nov.),归入魔蜂亚科冠腹魔蜂属。另外一块标本归入原翅蜂亚科柔弱卡魔蜂(Karataus exilis Zhang,Zhang and Rasnitsyn,2014),这是首次发现该种的雌性标本,进一步证明了卡魔蜂属(Karataus)存在明显的性双型现象。道虎沟生物群和哈萨克斯坦晚侏罗世卡拉套生物群中魔蜂科有很大的相似性,表明这两个生物群的时代可能相差不远。
