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Dasyleptus

Extinct genus of insects

"Monura" redirects here. For a synonym of a genus of rotifers, see Colurella.

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Dasyleptus is an extinct genus of wingless insects in the order Archaeognatha, and the only member of the family Dasyleptidae. They resembled their modern relatives and had a single lengthy filament projecting from the end of the abdomen. They also had a pair of leg-like cerci and some non-ambulatory abdominal appendages. The largest specimens reached 30 millimetres (1.2 in) or more, not counting the length of the filament.[2] Dasyleptus was formerly placed in its own extinct order, Monura, but this is now treated as a suborder of Archaeognatha.[3][4]

Species

The genus includes the following species:[3][1]

  • Dasyleptus artinskianus Engel, 2009 – Early Permian (Artinskian), Wellington Formation, Kansas, United States
  • Dasyleptus brongniarti Sharov, 1957 – Middle Permian (Roadian), Mitina Formation, Kuznetsk Basin, Russia
  • Dasyleptus lucasi Brongniart, 1885 (type species) – Late Carboniferous (Gzhelian), Commentry Shales, France
  • Dasyleptus noli Rasnitsyn, 2000 – Late Carboniferous (Gzhelian), Commentry Shales, France
  • Dasyleptus rowlandi Rasnitsyn in Rasnitsyn et al., 2004 – Early Permian (Asselian), Bursum Formation, New Mexico, United States
  • Dasyleptus sharovi (Durden, 1978) – Early Permian (Artinskian), Wellington Formation, United States
  • Dasyleptus sinensis Liu et al., 2021[5] – Late Permian/Early Triassic, Kayitou Formation, China
  • Dasyleptus triassicus Bechly & Stockar, 2011 – Middle Triassic (Ladinian), Meride Limestone, Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Zhang, Weiting; Li, Hu; Shih, Chungkun; Zhang, Aibing; Ren, Dong (August 2018). "Phylogenetic analyses with four new Cretaceous bristletails reveal inter-relationships of Archaeognatha and Gondwana origin of Meinertellidae". Cladistics. 34 (4): 384–406. doi:10.1111/cla.12212. PMID 34649368. S2CID 90962396.
  2. [2]
    Hoell, H.V.; Doyen, J.T. & Purcell, A.H. (1998). Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 321. ISBN 0-19-510033-6.
  3. [3]
    Bechly, G.; Stockar, R. (2011). "The first Mesozoic record of the extinct apterygote insect genus Dasyleptus (Insecta: Archaeognatha: Monura: Dasyleptidae) from the Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland)" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 4: 23–37.
  4. [4]
    "Suborder †Monura Sharov 1957". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  5. [5]
    Gui-Chun Liu; Hua Zhang; Chen-Yang Cai; Ai-Hua Yuan; Yu-Qing Zheng; Di-Ying Huang (2019). "The bristletail genus Dasyleptus (Insecta: Archaeognatha: Dasyleptidae) from the Upper Permian-Lower Triassic Kayitou Formation of SouthWestern China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1292–1296. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1692342. S2CID 213642030.


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