Type specimens of arthropods in fossil resins from collections of the PAS Museum of the Earth in Warsaw

Journal Title: Fragmenta Naturae - Year 2017, Vol 50, Issue

Abstract

A list of 206 specimens of fossil arthropods in Paleogene amber from the collections of the PAS Museum of the Earth in Warsaw is presented. The holotypes (150 spp.), paratypes (54 spp.) and neotypes (2 spp.) belong to the following eleven groups: Amphipoda (3 spp.), Araneae (8 spp.), Acariformes (3 spp.), Diptera (47 spp.), Hemiptera (38 spp.), Hymenoptera (17 spp.), Coleoptera (14 spp.), Thysanoptera (11 spp.), Strepsiptera (5 spp.), Lepidoptera (3 spp.), Neuroptera (1 sp.)

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Katarzyna Szczepaniak

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Katarzyna Szczepaniak (2017). Type specimens of arthropods in fossil resins from collections of the PAS Museum of the Earth in Warsaw. Fragmenta Naturae, 50(), 32-45. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-521542