Procretevania
''Cretevania'' is an extinct genus of Evaniidae, which lived in what is now China, Burma, England, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Spain during the Cretaceous period. the genus was described by Rasnitsyn in 1975, and the type species is ''Cretevania minor''. Species * ''Cretevania alcalai'' Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania alonsoi'' Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania bechlyi'' Jennings, Krogmann & Mew, 2013 * ''Cretevania concordia'' Rasnitsyn, Jarzembowski & Ross, 1998 * ''Cretevania cyrtocerca'' (Deans, 2004) Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania exquisita'' (Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2007) Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania major'' Rasnitsyn, 1975 * ''Cretevania meridionalis'' Rasnitsyn, 1991 * ''Cretevania minor'' Rasnitsyn, 1975 (type) * ''Cretevania minuta'' Rasnitsyn, 1975 * ''Cretevania montoyai'' Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania pristina'' (Zhang & Zhang, 2000) Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevania rubusensis'' Peñalver et al., 2010 * ''Cretevani ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evaniidae
Evaniidae is a family of parasitoid wasps also known as ensign wasps, nightshade wasps, hatchet wasps, or cockroach egg parasitoid wasps. They number around 20 extant genera containing over 400 described species, and are found all over the world except in the polar regions. The larvae of these solitary wasps are parasitoids that feed on cockroaches and develop inside the egg-cases, or oothecae, of their hosts. Description Evaniidae have the metasoma attached very high above the hind coxae on the propodeum, and the metasoma itself is quite small, with a long, one-segmented, tube-like petiole, and compressed laterally over most of its length (segments 2–8). The ovipositor is short and thin. When active, these wasps jerk the metasoma up and down constantly, as referenced in their common names. The mesosoma is high, short, and heavily sclerotized, with a ridged and pitted surface. The head is largely immovable and attaches to the mesosoma on a short neck; with usually 13- segment ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Animalia
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The Bilateria include the protostomes, containing animals such as nematodes, arthropods, flatworms, annelids and molluscs, and the deuterostomes, containing the echinode ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 In Paleontology
Flora Plants Fungi Cnidarians Research * New three dimensionally phosphatized microfossils of coronate scyphozoan '' Qinscyphus necopinus'', including a new type of fossil embryo, are described from the Cambrian (Fortunian) Kuanchuanpu Formation (China) by Shao ''et al.'' (2018), who interpret their findings as indicating that ''Qinscyphus'' underwent direct development. * A study on the morphology of the conulariid species '' Carinachites spinatus'' based on a new specimen collected from the lower Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation (China) is published by Han ''et al.'' (2018). * Revision of stony corals from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) Oehrli Formation (Austria and Switzerland) is published by Baron-Szabo (2018), who compares this fauna with five additional Berriasian coral faunas. New taxa Arthropods Bryozoans New taxa Brachiopods Research * Studies on the ontogenetic development of early acrotretoid brachiopods based on well preserved specimens of t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |