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Lebanoraphidia : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lebanoraphidia
''Lebanoraphidia'' is an extinct genus of snakefly in the family Mesoraphidiidae. The genus is solely known from Cretaceous, Upper Neocomian, fossil amber found in Lebanon. Currently the genus is composed of a single species ''Lebanoraphidia nana''. ==History and classification== ''Lebanoraphidia nana'' is known only from two fossils, the holotype, specimen number SMNS LB-235-2, and the paratype, number SMNS LB-235-1, both of which are housed in the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany. The specimens consist of partially complete adult insects with the holotype being of unidentified sex and the paratype being female. The specimens are preserved in transparent chunks of amber which have been embedded in artificial blocks of resin for study. The fossils were recovered from the outcrops of upper Neocomian rocks dating to about 130 million years old and yielding amber produced by Kauri pines. The outcrops are in the area of Jezzine in southern Lebanon. ''Lebanoraphidia'' was first studied by the paleoentomologists Günter Bechly and Karin Wolf-Schwenninger, both of the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart. Their 2011 type description of the new genus and species was published in the entomology journal ''Insect Systematics & Evolution''.〔 The genus name ''Lebanoraphidia'' was coined by the researchers as a combination of the snakefly genus ''Raphidia'' and "Lebano" which is in reference to the country of Lebanon where the genus was found.〔 The specific epithet ''nana'' is taken from the Greek word "nanos" meaning dwarf.〔 The name is a reference to the minute size of the adults. ''Lebanoraphidia nana'' is one of four described snakefly genera placed into the tribe Nanoraphidiini and the smallest described to date. The other three genera are ''Grimaldiraphidia'', ''Cantabroraphidia'', and the type genus ''Nanoraphidia''.〔
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