Abstract Abstract
Three new palaeopteran insects are described from the Middle Permian (Guadalupian) of Salagou Formation in the Lodève Basin (South of France), viz. the diaphanopterodean Alexrasnitsyniidae fam. n., based on Alexrasnitsynia permiana gen. et sp. n., the Parelmoidae Permelmoa magnifica gen. et sp. n., and Lodevohymen lapeyriei gen. et sp. n. (in Megasecoptera or Diaphanopterodea, family undetermined). In addition the first record of mayflies attributed to family Syntonopteridae (Ephemeroptera) is reported. These new fossils clearly demonstrate that the present knowledge of the Permian insects remains very incomplete. They also confirm that the Lodève entomofauna was highly diverse providing links to other Permian localities and also rather unique, with several families still not recorded in other contemporaneous outcrops.
Keywords: Insecta, Palaeoptera, Syntonopteridae, Alexrasnitsyniidae fam. n., Parelmoidae, gen. n., sp. n., Middle Permian, palaeodiversity
Introduction
Before the tremendous effort of collect of Dr Jean Lapeyrie who brought together a large collection of thousands of fossils, the ‘red’ Middle Permian Salagou Formation (Lodève Basin) was considered devoid of fossils. Palaeoenvironment of Lodève Basin could be characterized as climate controlled playa with ephemeral pools colonized by aquatic clam shrimps (Conchostraca) and tadpole shrimps (Notostraca) together with insects (Lopez et al. 2008). This palaeoenvironment was rich of insects those preservation exhibit considerable high diversity. Representatives of the orders Palaeodictyoptera, Diaphanopterodea, Odonatoptera, Orthoptera, Caloneurodea, Grylloblattodea, Hemiptera, and Glosselytrodea have already been described (see the state of the art in Béthoux 2008; plus Nel pers. comm.).
We describe herein four new fossil insects from the Salagou Formation those correspond to important new taxa. Unfortunately the great majority of this entomofauna is represented by isolated wings. The insect bodies have been destroyed by the abundant necrophagous animals (mainly Triops Schrank, 1803) and the decay due to taphonomic process (Gand et al. 1997). This limitation renders difficult the attribution of some fossils, as can be seen below.
Material and methods
The material described in the present paper comes from the Middle Permian deposits of Salagou Formation found in several localities in the Lodève Basin, Hérault, France (Garric 2000; Béthoux et al. 2002; Nel et al. 2009). Insects are preserved as compressed fossils and deposited in a playa palaeoenvironment. All specimens come from the Lapeyrie collection, currently housed at the Musée of Lodève, France.
The material was observed under stereomicroscope Olympus SZX-9 and venation pattern drawings were drawn directly through stereomicroscope by camera lucida. Photographs were made using digital camera Nikon D80 with macro lens Nikon AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105 mm by single sided cross-light exposure.
We follow the wing venation nomenclature of Kukalová-Peck (1991). Abbreviations of wing veins: C costa, ScP subcosta posterior, RA radius anterior, RP radius posterior, MA media anterior, MP media posterior, CuA cubitus anterior, CuP cubitus posterior, AA anal anterior, AP anal posterior.
Systematic part
Order Ephemeroptera Hyatt & Arms, 1890. Family Syntonopteridae Handlirsch, 1911
Genus indet.
Figure 1.
Genus and species indet.(Ephemeroptera: Syntonopteridae), specimen Ld LAP 483: A photograph of forewing B drawing of forewing (Scale bar represents 2 mm).
Material.
Specimen Ld LAP 483 (Lapeyrie collection, imprint of proximal part of forewing), stored at the Musée of Lodève, France.
Age and locality.
Middle Permian, Guadalupian, Lodève Basin, Salagou Formation, Lodève, Hérault, France (Garric 2000; Béthoux et al. 2002).
Description.
Counter-imprint of a fore wing without trace of preserved coloration, strongly developed corrugation of longitudinal veins; basal part of fore wing 22.7 mm long and 11.6 mm wide, estimated total length about 45 mm; area between ScP and C rather broad with numerous simple cross-veins; concave ScP straight and basally running close to radial and medial veins; RA nearly straight; RA and RP extremely approximate between wing base and a point situated 17.5 mm distally at which RP strongly diverges from RA; convex MA diverging from MP nearly at right angle and directed towards radial veins, 11.3 mm from wing base; MA distally closely parallel to RA and RP for 5.4 mm, then nearly touching RP at one point; RP emerging 6.4 mm distal of base of MA; concave MP nearly straight; convex CuA diverging from CuP close to wing base and running parallel to medial veins, CuA with two visible terminal branches; simple CuP strongly concave and only weakly curved; anal area partly preserved, first anal vein of neutral polarity ending with two main branches, second anal vein convex and distally pectinate with several branches connected by rather dense network of cells; along posterior wing margin a broad area between CuP and first anal vein; a small pentagonal elongate cell below second anal vein, near wing base.
Discussion.
This fossilbears a combination of the main characters of ephemeropterid family Syntonopteridae, i.e., a strong corrugation of the main longitudinal veins connected by mainly simple transverse crossveins also present in Odonatoptera and some Palaeodictyopterida (e.g., Breyeriidae), MA with a strong anterior curve at its base, shortly connected with RP distally; CuA with a short terminal twigging and anal area with well-defined cell(s). We can argue that this fossil is a forewing fragment for the absence of a characteristic constriction of concave vein IN- between AA1+2 and AA3+4 (Prokop et al. 2010). The specimen can be possibly attributed to a new genus and species for the long part of MA closely parallel to extremely approximate bases of RA and RP; a broad area between CuP and first anal vein near posterior wing margin, and CuP simple (differences with all other genera Lithoneura Carpenter, 1938, Syntonoptera Handlirsch, 1911, Anglolithoneura Prokop & al., 2010, except maybe Gallolithoneura Garrouste et al., 2009 based on a rather incomplete wing) (Garrouste et al. 2009). However, we prefer to maintain this specimen as Syntonopteridae gen. et sp. indet. for its incompleteness. Nevertheless this fossil represents the first undisputed record of mayflies from Salagou Formation in the Lodève Basin.
Order Diaphanopterodea Handlirsch, 1919
Family. Alexrasnitsyniidae fam. n.
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Type genus and species.
Alexrasnitsynia permiana gen. et sp. n.
Diagnosis.
Wing venation only. ScP ending on anterior wing margin near mid part of wing; stems of CuA, M and R very close; CuA, MP and MA diverging at the same point; MA and radial stem very closely parallel; MA distally fused for a short distance with RP; a very broad area between RA and anterior wing margin with several long simple oblique crossveins; a very broad area between CuA and CuP; CuA with weak secondary posterior branches.
Genus. Alexrasnitsynia gen. n.
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Type species.
Alexrasnitsynia permiana sp. n. by monotypy.
Etymology.
Named after Prof. Alexandr Rasnitsyn.
Diagnosis.
That of the family.
Alexrasnitsynia permiana sp. n.
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Figure 2.
Alexrasnitsynia permiana gen. et sp. n. (Diaphanopterodea: Alexrasnitsyniidae fam. n.), holotype LdLAP 318A: A photograph of wings, B drawing of wings (Scale bar represents 3 mm).
Material.
Holotype LdLAP 318A (Lapeyrie collection, prints of two identical wings), stored at the Musée of Lodève, France.
Type strata and locality.
Middle Permian, Guadalupian, Mérifons Member, Salagou Formation, Lodève, Languedoc, France (Garric 2000; Béthoux et al. 2002).
Diagnosis.
That of the family.
Description.
Wing 11.8 mm long, 3.9 mm wide; ScP simple, ending in costal margin near mid part of wing, a narrow area between it and C without visible crossveins; area between C and RA relatively broad, 0.6 mm wide, with a row of simple oblique crossveins; RA simple ending on anterior wing margin 0.4 mm from wing apex; RP separating from RA 2.6 mm from wing base; RP with six-seven branches and covering a broad area with series of crossveins; CuA, MP, and MA diverging at the same point, 1.3 mm from wing base; MA very closely parallel to radial stem and reaching RP, fused with it for 0.6 mm, and separating again distally, MA simple, slightly curved; MP simple; CuA with three short distal branches; a series of crossveins between MP and CuA; a broad area between CuA and CuP with crossveins; one anal vein preserved at least.
Discussion.
As the two wings show the same convexity of the veins and are very close, they are likely to be a fore- and a hindwing of the same specimen, but it is impossible to determine which one is the forewing. Alexrasnitsynia has a pattern of wing venation characteristic of many Diaphanopterodea (Martynoviidae, Biarmohymenidae, Asthenohymenidae, Rhaphidiopsidae, etc.), i.e. crossveins distinct, archedictyon absent, stems of M and R very close; CuA, MP and MA diverging at the same point; MA very closely parallel with radial stem and distally fused for a short distance with RP. Alexrasnitsynia differs from all the known representatives of this order, except Parelmoa Carpenter, 1947 and Permuralia Sinichenkova & Kukalová-Peck, 1997 in the very broad area between RA and anterior wing margin with several long simple oblique crossveins. It differs from these two last genera in vein MA strongly approximating radial stem, a very broad area between CuA and CuP, and CuA with weak secondary posterior branches (Carpenter 1947, 1992; Kukalová-Peck and Sinichenkova 1992; Sinichenkova and Kukalová-Peck 1997).
Note that the Upper Carboniferous monotypic family Velisopteridae Pinto & Adami-Rodrigues, 1997 is based on a fossil that seems to have none of the diaphanopterid characters listed above (Pinto and Adami-Rodrigues 1997). Its attribution to this order should be verified. The Permian genus and species Walasua maculata Tan, 1980 is based on a very fragmentary wing. It has some similarities with Alexrasnitsynia in the posterior branches of RP regularly organised, partial fusion of MA with RP, MA closely parallel to R, but structures like area between RA and costal margin, CuA, or CuP are not preserved in Walasua, rendering difficult the comparison with Alexrasnitsynia (Tan 1980). Nevertheless, the area between RA and RP is broad and with numerous crossveins in Alexrasnitsynia, unlike the situation in Walasua.
Alexrasnitsynia bears similar pattern of wing venation to monotypic Sypharoptera Handlirsch, 1911, based on Sypharoptera pneuma known from the Upper Carboniferous of Mazon Creek (USA). Handlirsch (1911) established a separate order Sypharopteroidea for it, which he thought represented an offshoot of Palaeodictyoptera, with possible relationship to Megasecoptera. Martynov (1938) considered this group an offshoot from Spilapteridae (Palaeodictyoptera) or their ancestors, but did not include it in the latter order. Further placement was done by Rohdendorf (1962) who assigned Sypharoptera to Diaphanopterodea on the basis of position of wings. Carpenter first provided revision considering position of Sypharoptera in Neoptera contra all previous authors, but resulting with placement to Insecta incertae sedis and later reconsidered as Palaeoptera incertae sedis (Carpenter 1967, 1992). Finally Rasnitsyn (2002: 80) considered Sypharoptera to be possibly related to neopterous group Caloneurida on the basis of roof-like wing position, elongate wings with narrow costal space and simple and straight CuA and CuP. However, the holotype of Sypharoptera is not in a position that allows determining with accuracy that the wings were in a roof-like position in the living animal (Fig. 3), while the narrow costal space and simple, straight CuA and CuP can be found in many Diaphanopterodea and are not sufficient for an attribution to another clade.
Figure 3.
Sypharoptera pneuma Handlirsch, 1911(?Diaphanopterodea: Sypharopteridae), holotype YPM No. 0064 (Upper Carboniferous,Carbondale Formation, Mazon Creek (Illinois, USA): photograph (Scale bar represents 5 mm).
Sypharoptera shares with Alexrasnitsynia rather short ScP, RA and RP widely separated and connected by a series of transversal crossveins, but the organisation of RP, MA, MP, and CuA at their bases is unknown in the former. So we cannot be sure of its possible affinities with our fossil. In particular, it is not possible to determine on the photograph of the holotype of Sypharoptera if it has a MA very closely parallel to radial stem and reaching the short oblique basal part of RP, fused with it for short distance, and separating again distally, as in Alexrasnitsynia.
The other structures of wing venation are similar in Sypharoptera and Alexrasnitsynia, with the main difference in the greater number of branches of RP in the latter (6–7 branches) than in the former (3–4 branches). One might be tempted to consider that Alexrasnitsynia and Sypharoptera belong to the same family of Diaphanopterodea. Nevertheless several important structures diagnostic to the family to which Alexrasnitsynia belongs are unknown in Sypharoptera, so we prefer to consider Alexrasnitsynia in a separate new family.
Family. Parelmoidae
Rohdendorf, 1962
Type genus.
Parelmoa Carpenter, 1947.
Other genera.
Pseudelmoa Carpenter, 1947, Permuralia Sinichenkova & Kukalová-Peck, 1997, Permelmoa gen. n.
Genus. Permelmoa gen. n.
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Type species.
Permelmoa magnifica sp. n.
Etymology.
Named after the Permian and the genus Elmoa Tillyard, 1937.
Diagnosis.
Wing venation only. ScP long, terminating to C close to wing apex; absence of ‘trifurcation between R, M, and CuA near wing base; CuA never touching M; MA and RP never touching.
Permelmoa magnifica sp. n.
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Figure 4.
Permelmoa magnifica gen. et sp. n. (Diaphanopterodea: Parelmoidae), holotype Ld LAP 365ab: A photograph of wing imprint, B photograph of wing counter-imprint, C drawing of wing (scale bar represents 3 mm).
Material.
Holotype Ld LAP 365ab (Lapeyrie collection, imprint and counterimprint of a complete wing), stored at the Musée of Lodève, France.
Type strata and locality.
Middle Permian, Lodève Basin, Salagou Formation, Les Vignasses, Lodève, Hérault, France (Garric 2000; Béthoux et al. 2002).
Description.
Complete wing without trace of coloration; wing 11.7 mm long and 3.3 mm wide; ScP simple and parallel to RA ending on costal margin close to wing apex (about 0.5 mm); stems R+M basally distinctly curved, with R and M separating about 1.8 mm from wing base; convex simple RA nearly straight, and ending in wing apex; RP separating from RA about 1/3 of wing length, RP with three long branches ending on posterior wing margin; simple convex MA shortly connected to RP by a crossvein; concave MP deeply forked 0.9 mm from division R and M; anterior branch of MP secondary bifurcated, posterior branch simple; simple convex CuA, basally close to R+M; no apparent ‘trichotomy’ R/M/CuA; simple concave CuP; anal area with three or four veins.
Discussion.
Permelmoa is clearly attributable to the Parelmoidae because of combination of the following characters: ScP terminating on C; RP ending with three long branches; MA not coalescent with RP, but shortly connected by crossvein; MP deeply forked. Permelmoa differs from Parelmoa and Pseudelmoa in the absence of trifurcation between R, M, and CuA near wing base, and in the presence of a longer ScP terminating to C close to wing apex. In Permuralia, ScP is rather short and terminating on RA, CuA is touching M, and MA and RP are fused for a short distance, unlike in Permelmoa.
Family undetermined
Genus. Lodevohymen gen. n.
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Type species.
Lodevohymen lapeyriei sp. n.
Etymology.
Named after Lodève town and Hymen.
Diagnosis.
Wing characters only. Presence of basal fusion of M with CuA; broad areas between C and ScP and between ScP and RA without apical ‘pterostigma’-like structure, RP with five posterior parallel branches; strong convexity of basally connected veins R, M, and CuA, forming a curve.
Lodevohymen lapeyriei sp. n.
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Figure 5.
Lodevohymen lapeyriei gen. et sp. n.(?Diaphanopterodea), holotype LdLAP 556: A photograph of wing, B drawing of wing (Scale bar represents 3 mm).
Material.
Holotype LdLAP 556 (imprint of nearly complete wing, basal part not well preserved, Lapeyrie collection), stored at the Musée of Lodève, France.
Type strata and locality.
Middle Permian, Lodève Basin, Salagou Formation, Les Canals, Lodève Basin, Hérault, France (Garric 2000; Béthoux et al. 2002).
Description.
Wing elongated and basally narrow with no trace of coloration preserved, wing fragment about 16.5 mm long, estimated length about 19.5 mm width 4.2 mm in widest part; anterior margin nearly straight, ScP straight ending to C close to wing apex; areas between costal margin and ScP and ScP and RA rather broad; stem of R basally connected to M diverging 1/3 of wing length; division of RA and RP about 8.5 mm from the wing base, RA simple and straight ending in wing apex; RP pectinate with five branches ending on posterior wing margin, crossveins organized in rows between branches of RP; simple MA strongly diverges from MP 1.2 mm from division of stems R and M, and well connected with RP for distance; MP, CuA separates from CuP near wing base, CuA and M basally fused and closely parallel to R, separating 3.0 mm from base of CuA; CuA and CuP simple and straight with a few crossveins between them; anal area reduced, one anal vein present close the wing base.
Discussion.
Lodevohymen shares with the diaphanopterodean taxa Asthenohymen Tillyard, 1924 (including Karoohymen Riek, 1976) (Asthenohymenidae Tillyard, 1924) and Biarmohymen Zallesky, 1937 (Biarmohymenidae Zallesky, 1937), but also with the megasecopteran taxa Permohymen Tillyard, 1924, Ivahymen Martynov, 1932, Protohymen Tillyard, 1924 (Protohymenidae Tillyard, 1924), Scytohymen Martynov, 1937, Oceanoptera Shcherbakov, 2009 (in Shcherbakov et al. 2009), and Tshekardohymen Rohdendorf, 1940 (Scytohymenidae Martynov, 1937), the presence of basal fusion of M with CuA (Carpenter 1992; Riek 1976; Shcherbakov et al. 2009). This important character together with a very similar pattern of venation present in all these taxa would suggest that their attribution to different orders is weakly supported.
Nevertheless Lodevohymen strongly differs from all these taxa in the broad areas between C and ScP and between ScP and RA without apical ‘pterostigma’-like structure. Other Diaphanopterodea and Megasecoptera have not a long fusion CuA-M in basal part of wing (Carpenter 1992).
The genus Sunohymen Hong, 1985, currently included into the Protohymenidae, shares with Lodevohymen the rather broad areas between C and ScP and RA, but they differ in RP with only two branches in the former. Also all its structures of basal half of wing are unknown, so that its attribution to the Protohymenidae, family in which M is basally fused to CuA, remains undemonstrated (Hong 1985).
Lodevohymen is obviously strongly different from all other Diaphanopterodea and Megasecoptera.
Lodevohymen could be better attributed to the Diaphanopterodea rather than to the Megasecoptera for the strong convexity of the basally connected veins R, M, and CuA, forming a curve. Nevertheless, as already noted by Carpenter (1992), it is very difficult to attribute isolated wings of this kind to one of these two orders. It is better to avoid creating a new family as the phylogeny of these two orders is still to be done and the limits of the described families not clearly defined.
Conclusion
We described in the present study two new representatives of Diaphanopterodea, including a new family, plus one enigmatic taxon that could be either related to this order or to the Megasecoptera, and the first representative of the order Ephemeroptera in the Salagou Formation. These new fossils confirm that this fauna is very rich, diverse and rather unique. It also confirms the general impression that the current knowledge on the Permian insects remains very incomplete. Interestingly, the Coleoptera and other holometabolous orders remain nearly unrecorded in the Lodève basin while these insects are already present in the Lower Permian and dominate all the fossil entomofaunas after the Triassic of Vosges (Papier et al. 2005). This confirms the hypothesis of Nel et al. (2007) about the delayed diversification of the Holometabola after the Permian-Triassic crisis. The Middle Permian appears as a period of renewal of the ‘ancient’, Carboniferous, groups of insects, especially in the palaeopteran clades, before the great extinctions that took place during the period between the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic.
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Acknowledgements
Authors are grateful to reviewers Nina Sinitshenkova (Palaeontological Institute RAS, Moscow), Nikita J. Kluge (Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg) and journal editor Dmitry Shcherbakov (Palaeontological Institute RAS, Moscow) for their insightful comments and suggestions. First author thank to Dr. Susan Butts for access to the collection of Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University (New Haven, USA) and possibility to take photograph of type specimen. We sincerely thank Dr Jean Lapeyrie and Stéphane Foucher from the Musée de Lodève for having made available for study the impressive collection of fossil insects from Lodève. The first author (JP) acknowledges the research support from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic No. P210/10/0633 and Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic MSM 0021620828.
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