Misthodotes

Misthodotes
Temporal range: Asselian–Wuchiapingian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
(unranked): Panephemeroptera
(unranked): Ephemerida
(unranked): †Permoplectoptera
Family: †Misthodotidae
Genus: †Misthodotes
Sellards, 1909
Type species
Dromeus obtusus
Sellards, 1907
Synonyms[1]
  • Dromeus Sellards, 1907 (preoccupied)
  • Eudoter Tillyard, 1936

Misthodotes is an extinct genus of stem-group mayflies which existed during the Permian of what is now the United States, Russia and Germany. It was first described under the name Dromeus by Elias Howard Sellards [de] in 1907.[2] It was found that this name had already been used for another genus, so Sellards renamed his genus to Misthodotes in 1909.[3] Unlike the adults of modern mayflies, which have non-functional mouthparts and are unable to feed, adults of Misthodotes had functional mouthparts for chewing.[4][5]

Species

  • †Misthodotes biguttatus Tillyard, 1932 – Wellington Formation, Kansas, Early Permian, Artinskian
  • †Misthodotes delicatulus (Tillyard, 1936) – Wellington Formation, Kansas, Early Permian, Artinskian
  • †Misthodotes dubius Sinitshenkova, 2013[6] – Poldarsa Formation, Russia, Late Permian, Wuchiapingian
  • †Misthodotes edmundsi Carpenter, 1979 – Wellington Formation, Oklahoma, Early Permian, Artinskian
  • †Misthodotes obtusus (Sellards, 1907) – Wellington Formation, Kansas, Early Permian, Artinskian
  • †Misthodotes ovalis Tillyard, 1932 – Wellington Formation, Kansas, Early Permian, Artinskia
  • †Misthodotes sharovi Tshernova, 1965 – Koshelevka Formation, Russia, Early Permian, Kungurian
  • †Misthodotes stapfi Kinzelbach and Lutz, 1984[7] – Jeckenbach Formation, Germany, Early Permian, Asselian
  • †Misthodotes tshernovae Sinitshenkova & Vassilenko, 2012[8] – Poldarsa Formation, Russia, Late Permian, Wuchiapingian
  • †Misthodotes visherensis Novokshonov, Ivanov & Aristov, 2002[9] – Solikamsk Formation, Russia, Early Permian, Kungurian
  • †Misthodotes zalesskyi Tshernova, 1965 – Koshelevka Formation, Russia, Early Permian, Kungurian

References

  1. ^ Carpenter, F. M. (1979). "Lower Permian insects from Oklahoma. Part 2. Orders Ephemeroptera and Palaeodictyoptera". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 86: 261–290. doi:10.1155/1979/96359.
  2. ^ Sellards, E. H. (1907). "Types of Permian insects. Part II. Plectoptera". American Journal of Science. 4. 23: 345–355.
  3. ^ Sellards, E. H. (1909). "Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera". American Journal of Science. 4. 27: 151–173.
  4. ^ "Life history of Palaeozoic mayflies". Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS. 2 June 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  5. ^ Sroka, P.; Godunko, R. J.; Sinitshenkova, N.D.; Prokop, J. (2021). "Life history, systematics and flight ability of the Early Permian stem‑mayflies in the genus Misthodotes Sellards, 1909 (Insecta, Ephemerida, Permoplectoptera)". BMC Ecology and Evolution. 21: 97. doi:10.1186/s12862-021-01820-x. PMC 8142488.
  6. ^ Sinitshenkova, N.D. (2013). "New mayflies (Insecta: Ephemerida = Ephemeroptera) from the Upper Permian locality of Isady, Northern European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 47 (2): 162–165. doi:10.1134/S0031030113020135.
  7. ^ Kinzelbach, R.; Lutz, H. (1984). "Eine neue Eintagsfliege Misthodotes stapfi n. sp. aus dem Rotliegenden des Nahe-Gebietes (Ephemeroptera: Permoplectoptera: Misthodotidae)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift (in German). 58 (3/4): 247–253. doi:10.1007/BF02986063.
  8. ^ Sinitshenkova, N. D.; Vassilenko, D. V. (2012). "The latest record of mayflies of the family Protereismatidae Sellards (Ephemerida = Ephemeroptera) and a new species of the family Misthodotidae in the Upper Permian of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 46 (1): 61–65. doi:10.1134/S0031030112010121.
  9. ^ Novokshonov, V.G.; Ivanov, V.V.; Aristov, D.S (2002). "New insects from the Late Permian of the Ural Mountains". Paleontological Journal. 36 (2): 157–160.