New snakeflies (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of the UK, Spain and Brazil

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JEPSON, J. E., ANSORGE, J., JARZEMBOWSKI, E. A. 2011. New snakeflies (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of the UK, Spain and Brazil. Palaeontology, 54, 2, 385–395.

James E. Jepson, Jörg Ansorge and Edmund A. Jarzembowski Several new taxa of snakeflies (Raphidioptera) are described from the Lower Cretaceous deposits of the Wealden, UK (Barremian), Montsec, Spain (Barremian) and the Crato Formation, Brazil (Aptian). Mesoraphidia ednae sp. nov. and M. hilli sp. nov. are described from the Wealden; Nanoraphidia lithographica sp. nov. and Iberoraphidia dividua gen. et sp. nov. are described from Montsec, and Baissoptera lisae sp. nov. is described from the Crato Formation. The geographical range of Nanoraphidia has potentially been extended.
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