The Triassic Insect Fauna from South America (Argentina, Brasil, and Chile): A Checklist (except Blattoptera and Coleoptera) and descriptions of new taxa

MARTINS NETO, RAFAEL GIOIA; GALLEGO, O.F; MELCHOR, RICARDO N.

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia

Institute of Systematic and Evolution of Animals

Lugar: Krakow; Año: 2003 vol. 46 p. 229 - 256

0065-1710

                        The present paper describes new fossil insect taxa from the Los Rastros and Ischichuca Formations, from La Rioja Province, Argentina, and Santa Juana Formation, from Chile, dated as late Middle Triassic to early Late Triassic.  Eighth new genera and nine new species are proposed, namely Frenguelliphlebia labandeirai n. gen. et n. sp. (Odonatoptera), Argentinoperlidium rogersi n. gen. et n. sp. (Plecoptera), the following Auchenorrhyncha: Dysmorphoptiloides pulcherrima n. sp., Bandelnielsenia chilena n. gen. et n. sp., and Gallegomorphoptila breviptera n. gen. et n. sp. (Dysmorphoptilidae), Gualoscytina mayae n. gen. et n. sp. (Scytinopteridae) and Argentinopheloscyta forsterae n. gen. et n. sp. (Stenoviciidae) and the Coleorrhyncha Progonomicidae  Yurigomicex popovi  n. gen. et n. sp. and Popovigocimex yurii n. gen. et n. sp. Additionally a checklist of all known described species of South America Triassic is furnished (except Blattoptera and Coleoptera, paper in preparation) as well as a discussion about dispersal paths of the Triassic conchostracan and insects faunas of Gondwana.