2010 in arthropod paleontology

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2010 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that have been described during the year 2010. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

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Dinocaridida

Newly named Dinocaridids
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Amplectobelua stephenensis[1]	Sp nov	Valid	Daley & Budd	Middle Cambrian	Burgess Shale Formation	Canada	An anomalocaridid
Caryosyntrips[1]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Daley & Budd	Middle Cambrian	Burgess Shale Formation	Canada	An anomalocaridid, type species C. serratus	Caryosyntrips serratus
Tamisiocaris[2][3]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Daley & Peel	Cambrian	Buen Formation Kinzers Formation[4]	Greenland  United States[4]	A suspension-feeding anomalocarid.[3] The type species is T. borealis

Newly named crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aciculopoda[5]	Fam, gen et Sp nov	Valid	Feldmann & Schweitzer	Devonian		USA	Oldest known shrimp.
Chenops[6]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Hegna & Ren	Barremian	Yixian Formation	China	A notostracan	Chenops yixianensis
Jeholops[6]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Hegna & Ren	Barremian	Yixian Formation	China	A notostracan	Jeholops (left)
Nasunaris[7]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, & Sutton	Silurian		UK	An ostracod

Newly named insects

• A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs.[8]
• A new family, Mendozachoristidae, is published by Brauckmann et al..[9]
• A new family of Moths, Mesokristenseniidae, is published by Huang, Nel and Minet.[10]
• A new order of holometabolous insects, Nakridletia, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.[11]
• A new family of holometabolous insects, Vosilidae, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.[11]
• A new family of Cockroaches, Socialidae, is published by Vršanský.[12]
• A new family of fulgoroid hemipterans, Weiwoboidae, is published by Lin, Szwedo, Huang and Stroiński.[13]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bohemiatupus elegans[14]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Prokop & Nel	Westphalian	Kladno Formation	Czech Republic
Camptoneurites soyanensis[15]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kazanian	Soyana locality	Russia	A Notopteran
Cantabroraphidia[16]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Pérez-de la Fuente, Nel, Peñalver, & Delclòs	Albian	Las Peñosas Formation, Cave of El Soplao	Spain	A mesoraphidiid snakefly; The type species is C. marcanoi	Cantabroraphidia marcanoi
Cascopleciidae[17]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Poinar	Early Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar	A flower-visiting Bibionomorpha fly. Type genus Cascoplecia, type species C. insolitis	Cascoplecia
Crepidodera decolorata[18]	sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Deinodryinus? aptianus[19]	sp nov	Valid	Olmi, Rasnitsyn, & Guglielmino	Aptian	Khurilt rock unit	Mongolia	A dryinid wasp.	Deinodryinus? aptianus
Ektatotricha[20]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Electroatopos[20]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Epiaeschna pseudoheros[21]	Sp nov	valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Chattian	Les Figons	France	An Aeshnid dragonfly	Epiaeschna pseudoheros
Holcorpa dillhoffi[22]	sp nov	valid	Archibald	Ypresian	McAbee fossil site	Canada	A holcorpid scorpionfly
Iberoevania[23]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Amber	Spain	An evaniid
Jerseyempheria[24]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius	Cretaceous	New Jersey amber	USA	A empheriid psocodean
Kachinus[20]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
Lichnomesopsyche[25]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Middle Jurassic	Jiulongshan Formation	China	A mesopsychid mecopteran
Limnoxenus olenus[26]	Sp nov	Valid	Fikacek, Prokop, & Nel	Chattian	Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation	France	A water scavenger beetle	Limnoxenus olenus
Manobiomorpha[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Mendozachorista[9]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke, Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara	Late Triassic	Llantenes Formation	Argentina	The species is M. volkheimeri
Mesokristensenia[10]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Huang, Nel, & Minet	Middle Jurassic	Daohugou Beds	China
Microcostaphron[8]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Álava amber	Spain	The species is M. parvus
Nylanderia pygmaea[27]	Comb nov	Valid	(Mayr)	Middle Eocene	European amber	Europe	A formicine ant, new combination for Paratrechina pygmaea	Nylanderia pygmaea
Paleophaedon[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A chrysomeline leaf beetle
Parazila[11]	gen et sp nov	Synonymized	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Late Jurassic		Russia	A fly
Psyllototus[18]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
Radiophron[8]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous	Álava amber	Spain	The species is R. ibericus
Raptorapax[28]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel	Early Cretaceous	Amber	Lebanon	A rhachiberothid lacewing
Sociala[12]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský	Albian	Amber	France	A cockroach
Sapho legrandi[21]	Sp nov	valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Chattian	Les Figons	France	A Calopterygid damselfly	Sapho legrandi
Tyulkinia[15]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kungurian	Tyulkino locality	Russia	A Notopteran
Vitimopsyche kozlovi[25]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Early Cretaceous	Jehol Biota	China	A mesopsychid mecopteran
Vosila[11]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Middle Jurassic		China	A fly
Weiwoboa[13]	Fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński	Lower Eocene		China

Newly named spiders

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eoplectreurys[29]	Valid	Selden Huang	Middle Jurassic	Daohugou Beds	China	The oldest known haplogyne spider.

Trilobites

Newly named trilobites
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pseudocybele paranasuta[30]	Sp nov	Valid	McAdams & Adrain	Early Ordovician	Fillmore Limestone	United States	A member of the family Pliomeridae.

Notes

References

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11. Peter Vršanský; Ren Dong; Shih ChungKun (2010). "Nakridletia ord.n. – enigmatic insect parasites support sociality and endothermy of pterosaurs". Amba projekty. 8 (1): 1–16.
12. Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 793–808. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x.
13. Lin Qibin; Jacek Szwedo; Huang Diying; Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of 'Higher' Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 751–755. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.
14. Prokop, J.; Nel, A. (2010). "New griffenfly, Bohemiatupus elegans from the Late Carboniferous of western Bohemia in the Czech Republic (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Meganeuridae)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 183–188. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697655. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
15. Danil S. Aristov; Sergey Yu. Storozhenko; Cui Yingying (2010). "Review of the Permian Camptoneuritidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida)". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 756–761. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00245.x.
16. Pérez-de la Fuente, R.; Nel, A.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X. (2010). "A new Early Cretaceous snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from El Soplao amber (Spain)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 108–115. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697644.
17. Poinar Jr., George (2010). "Cascoplecia insolitis (Diptera: Cascopleciidae), a new family, genus, and species of flower-visiting, unicorn fly (Bibionomorpha) in Early Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 71–76. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.007.
18. Konstantin Nadein; Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x.
19. Guglielmino, A.; Olmi, M. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of Deinodryinus, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys (130): 495–504. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1326. PMC 3260777. PMID 22259295.
20. Stylianos Chatzimanolis; Michael S. Engel; Alfred F. Newton; David A. Grimaldi (2010). "New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009.
21. Nel, A; Petrulevicius, J.F. (2010). "Afrotropical and Nearctic genera of Odonata in the French Oligocene: biogeographic and paleoclimatic implications (Insecta: Calopterygidae, Aeshnidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 228–236. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697662.
22. Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654.
23. Enrique Peñalver; Jaime Ortega-Blanco; André Nel; Xavier Delclòs (2010). "Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 809–827. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x.
24. Dany Azar; André Nel; Julian F. Petrulevicius (2010). "First Psocodean (Psocodea, Empheriidae) from the Cretaceous Amber of New Jersey". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 762–767. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00255.x.
25. Ren Dong; Conrad C. Labandeira; Shih ChungKun (2010). "New Mesozoic Mesopsychidae (Mecoptera) from Northeastern China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 720–731. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00244.x.
26. Fikacek, M.; Prokop, J.; Nel, A. (2010). "Fossil water scavenger beetles of the subtribe Hydrobiusina (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the Late Oligocene locality of Aix-en-Provence (France)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 50: 445–458.
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28. Julian F. Petrulevicius; Dany Azar; André Nel (2010). "A New Thorny Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from the Early Cretaceous Amber of Lebanon". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 828–833. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00242.x.
29. Selden, Paul A.; Huang Diying (2010). "The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (5): 449–459. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..449S. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0649-z. PMID 20140419.
30. Neo E. B. McAdams; Jonathan M. Adrain (2010). "A new species of the Lower Ordovician pliomerid trilobite Pseudocybele and its biostratigraphic significance" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2550: 21–38. doi:10.5281/zenodo.196803.