Fossil caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Early Cretaceous of southern England II

A New Fossil of Necrotauliidae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation of China and Its Taxonomic Significance

“…Necrotauliidae have been described in the Late Triassic of Western Europe and the Late Mesozoic of Asia. Most fossil specimens of Necrotauliidae collected from Germany, Russia, China, and United Kingdom [13] , [14] , [16] , [23] , [24] . In China four Mesozoic Necrotauliidae, including Necropsis paludis Hong, 1983 Necrotaulius fascialatus Hong, 1983, N. kritus Lin, 1986, and N. qingshilaense Hong, 1984 have been described [13] , [25] .…”

New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe

“…This is an emergent pattern among some insects known from Eocene Republic and other Okanagan Highlands fossil localities, e.g., bulldog ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae; Archibald et al 2006), and mastotermitid termites (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae; Wilson 1977). This is in accord with a broader pattern of a number of insects that had a Northern Hemisphere distribution in the Mesozoic and/or Eocene, and are today restricted to the Australian region, e.g., Tettigarctidae (Hemiptera) (Menon 2005); Plectrotarsidae (Trichoptera) (Sukacheva & Jarzembowski 2001); the genus Peradenia Naumann et Masner, 1985 and its family Peradeniidae (Hymenoptera) (Johnson et al 2001); and, indeed, other biota, e.g., the family and genus level similarities between the Lutetian flora of Messel, Germany, and that of the modern Australian region (Burrows 1998). This is the first fossil record of Nymphes, and so details of its change in distribution through the Cenozoic remain obscure (Nymphidae is also now established in North America for the first time; the biogeographic history of the family will be examined in a future work).…”

<p class="Body" align="left"><strong>Micro-caddisfly faunas of Australia and the southwest Pacific (Trichoptera, Hydroptilidae)</strong></p>

“…A feature to be noted for Trichoptera in the region is that at family level endemism is low-only Australia has 2 endemic families, Antipodoecidae (although apparently this family is likely to be suppressed in synonymy) and Plectrotarsidae. Given that fossils attributed to Plectrotarsidae have been found in the Northern Hemisphere (Sukatsheva & Jarzembowski 2001) that family may be relictual.…”