This is an edited book with original scientific papers of the results of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber (FossilX3) held in Byblos, Lebanon in April, 2013. In the tradition of previous congresses, researchers from around the world gathered to discuss the latest developments and to build new co-operative endeavours. Recognizing that the future of our science is one of interdisciplinary collaboration, these meetings steadily grow in importance, and proceedings such as this reveal the latest hypotheses and conclusions, while inspiring others toward newer and greater goals.
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PART ONE INSECTS FROM CAENOZOIC AMBER |
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A new psychodid fly from Mexican amber (Diptera; Psychodidae) |
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A new Sycorax species from Eocene Ukrainian Rovno Amber (Diptera: Psychodida: Sycoracinae) |
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Another new representative of the isometopin genus Archemyiomma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Late Eocene Rovno (Ukraine) amber |
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On the systematic position of the genera Lepiceroides genn and Haplochelus, with notes on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the Myxophaga (Coleoptera) |
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PART TWO INSECTS FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS AMBER |
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Two new biting midges of the modem type from Santonian amber of France (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) |
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PART THREE INSECTS FROM LOWER CRETACEOUS LEBANESE AMBER |
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Gapenus rhinariatus gen. sp. n., a new whitefly from Lebanese amber (Hemiptera: Stemorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae) |
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A new beaded lacewing from a new Lower Cretaceous amber outcrop in Lebanon (Neuroptera: Berothidae) |
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Nannotanyderus ansorgei sp. n., the first member of the family Tanyderidae from Lebanese amber (Lower Cretaceous) |
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First record of Perforissidae from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea) |
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PART FOUR FOSSIL INSECT COMPRESSION |
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Mieroblattlna pads gen. et sp. nov. -- Upper Cretaceous cockroach (Blattida: Mesoblattinidae) from Nammoura limestone of Lebanon |
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PART FIVE NEW AMBER OUTCROP |
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Fanar, a "dream" Lebanese Lower Cretaceous amber outcrop, dissipated |
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PART SIX NEW TECHNIQUES FOR AMBER PREPARATION |
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A new technique for preparation of small-sized amber samples with application to mites |
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Dany Azar, PhD (2000), University of Paris XI- Orsay- France, is Professor - Research Director - Senior Curator, Lebanese University and Natural History Musem of the same University. He is a world authority in amber, paleoentomology and insects evolution, with over 180 publications. He received recentlty the Excellence Award of the Lebanese National Council of Scientific Research for his outstanding researches on fossil insects and their evolution. Michael S. Engel, PhD (1998) is Professor-Senior Curator, University of Kansas, and Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History. He is an authority on insect biology, systematics, and paleontology, with over 450 publications, and co-author of Evolution of the Insects (2005, Cambridge University Press). Edmund Jarzembowski, PhD. is Professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China. He is a world authority on paleoenvironment and paleoentomology, he published many books and articles. André Nel, PhD. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, is Professor-Senior Curator at the same institute. He is a world authority on fossil insects, evolution, systematics and paleontology, with over 500 publications. Lars Krogmann, PhD (2005), is research entomologist and head of the Hymenoptera Section at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart. His research interests cover all aspects of hymenopteran systematics. Previously, he has been awarded a PostDoc fellowship from the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt foundation and was appointed at the University of Adelaide (South Australia). Lars Krogmann is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Insect Systematics & Evolution. Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD (1990), University of California, Berkeley is a Research Associate at the NMNH. He researches arthropods and plants, serves as Editor-in-Chief of Life: The Excitement of Biology and Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, and teaches at several American universities.
