Biology:Oregramma

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Short description: Extinct genus of insects

Oregramma
Temporal range: 125–122 Ma[1]
Oregramma illecebrosa.png
Oregramma illecebrosa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Neuroptera
Family: Kalligrammatidae
Subfamily: Oregrammatinae
Genus: Oregramma
Ren 2003[2]
Species
  • Oregramma illecebrosa
  • Oregramma gloriosa
  • Oregramma aureolusa

Oregramma is a genus of "butterfly mimicking" lacewing in the extinct family Kalligrammatidae. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China.[3] It likely fed on pollen and plant juices, unlike modern lacewings, most of which are carnivorous.[4][5]

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Oregramma". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=295520. 
  2. Ren, Dong (2003). "Two new Late Jurassic genera of kalligrammatids from Beipiao, Liaoning (Neuroptera: Kalligrammatidae).". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 28: 105–109. doi:10.1603/008.102.0606. 
  3. Yang, Q.; Wang, Y.; Labandeira, C.C.; Shih, C.; Ren, D. (2014). "Mesozoic lacewings from China provide phylogenetic insight into evolution of the Kalligrammatidae (Neuroptera)". BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 126. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-126. PMID 24912379. 
  4. Labandeira, C. C. (2010). "The pollination of Mid Mesozoic seed plants and the early history of long-proboscid insects". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97 (4): 469–513. doi:10.3417/2010037. 
  5. University of Minnesota Extension. "Lacewing". https://extension.umn.edu/beneficial-insects/lacewing. 

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