Lotsa Jurassic bugs!

Adam Khor · 13-02-2012 08:39PM #1

From China, again. Amongst the most interesting is the mantophasmid Juramantophasma:

The interesting part of mantophasmids is that they were first discovered as fossils, and later found to be still alive in some regions of Africa. This is what they look like today:

Juramantophasma is the oldest mantophasmid known to date; the original mantophasmids (the ones discovered before the living ones) were from the Eocene.

More recently revealed Jurassic bugs:

Eoplectreurys (spider)

Palaeoarthrotheles (fly)

And Jurakempynus (lacewing, still has living relatives), also the oldest member of its family (and of which not one but three species were described).

http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100050.html
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016699511000787?via=sd&cc=y