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A new genus and species of fossil moth, Miogeometridachunjenshihi Zhang, Shih & Shih, gen. et sp. nov., assigned to Geometridae, is described from Miocene Dominican amber dating from 15–20 Mya. The new genus is characterized by the forewing without a fovea, R1 not anastomosing with Sc, no areole formed by veins R1 and Rs, R1 and Rs1 completely coincident, M2 arising midway between M1 and M3, anal veins 1A and 2A fused for their entire lengths; and the hind wing with Rs running close to Sc + R1 and M2 absent.
chunjenshihiEnnominaeextinctfossiltaxonomyBeijing Municipal Education Commission501100003213http://doi.org/10.13039/501100003213Citation
Zhang W, Shih C, Shih YH, Ren D (2020) A new macrolepidopteran moth (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Geometridae) in Miocene Dominican amber. ZooKeys 965: 73–84. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.965.54461
Introduction
Geometridae, the second most species-rich family of Lepidoptera, comprise approximately 24,000 described species (van Nieukerken et al. 2011; Murillo-Ramos et al. 2019). Geometridae are macrolepidopterans characterized by the presence of unique tympanal organs at the base of the abdomen, and the prolegs of their larvae reduced to two pairs causing the larvae to move by ‘looping’ (Minet and Scoble 1999). Geometridae were once classified into six subfamilies: Geometrinae, Ennominae, Sterrhinae, Larentiinae, Archiearinae and Oenochrominaesensu lato (Holloway 1994, 1996, 1997; Minet and Scoble 1999), but this classification was not fully satisfactory due to the fact that Oenochrominaesensu lato are a polyphyletic group (Scoble and Edwards 1990). Oenochrominaesensu lato were further divided into Oenochrominaesensu stricto, Desmobathrinae, Orthostixinae, and Alsophilinae, forming a classification system of nine subfamilies (Yamamoto and Sota 2007), but later Alsophilinae was subsumed in Ennominae (Wahlberg et al. 2010). Sihvonen et al. (2011) provided a comprehensive phylogeny of the Geometridae, and they found the previously recognized subfamilies to be monophyletic except the Oenochrominae + Desmobathrinae complex, which is a polyphyletic assemblage of taxa, and the Orthostixinae, which was positioned within the Ennominae. The systematic status of Orthostixinae remains uncertain, although Orthostixinae were synonymized with Desmobathrinae by Beljaev (2016). Systematic updates and annotated checklists of Western Palaearctic Geometridae were provided in "The Geometrid Moths of Europe" series (Hausmann 2001, 2004; Mironov 2003; Hausmann and Viidalepp 2012; Skou and Sihvonen 2015; Müller et al. 2019). Murillo-Ramos et al. (2019) established a new subfamily Epidesmiinae and transferred eight genera from Oenochrominaesensu stricto to Epidesmiinae.
The age of Geometroidea was calculated to trace back to 83 Mya (Wahlberg et al. 2013), and the age of Geometridae was estimated at ca 54 Mya (62–48 Mya, Yamamoto and Sota 2007). Recently, Kawahara et al. (2019) inferred a comprehensive phylogeny of Lepidoptera, and they dated the oldest members of the Lepidoptera crown group in the Late Carboniferous (ca 300 Mya), and speculated the ancestors of Geometroidea appeared in the Late Cretaceous. To date, 18 fossil records of Geometridae have been formally reported (Table 1). Harris and Raine (2002) reported a Late Cretaceous (Albian-Turonian, 113–89.8 Mya) lepidopterous genitalic fragment from New Zealand, and deemed its affinity probably lies within Geometridae, but Sohn et al. (2012) regarded the available characters insufficient to support a family-level diagnosis. The Eocene (56–33.9 Mya) species, Eogeometervadens Fischer, Michalski & Hausmann, 2019, Geometriditeslarentiiformis Jarzembowski, 1980 and Hydriomena?protrita Cockerell, 1922, respectively from the Baltic, UK, and USA, are believed to be the earliest representatives of Geometridae. However, most of the reported fossil geometrids are questionable. Evers (1907) assigned a specimen from Zanzibar Island to the extant genus Hyperythra and regarded this specimen as H.lutea, but Kozlov (1988) identified it as Geometridites sp. In addition, Phalaenitesproserpinae Heer, 1861 was also considered as Geometridites sp. by Kozlov (1988). Lacking strong evidence, Sohn et al. (2012) disputed the Geometridae affiliation of Problongosbaudiliensis Mérit & Mérit, 2008. Kusnezov (1941) treated Angeronaelectrina Giebel, 1862 as Macrolepidoptera incertae sedis. Grimaldi and Engel (2005) mentioned three specimens of Geometridae from Early Miocene Dominican amber (15–20 Mya), and provided pictures of these specimens.
Fossil records of Geometridae.
Subfamily
Genus
Species
Life cycle
Epoch
Locality/Country
Reference
Note
1
Ennominae
Angerona
† A.electrina
adult
possibly Holocene
not stated
Giebel 1862; Sohn et al. 2012
Kusnezov (1941) treated this species as Macrolepidoptera incertae sedis.
2
Ennominae
† Eogeometer
† E.vadens
larva
Late Eocene-Early Oligocene
Baltic
Fischer et al. 2019
3
Ennominae
Hyperythra
H.lutea ?
adult
Late Pleistocene
Tanzania
Evers 1907
Kozlov (1988) considered this specimen as Geometridites sp.
4
Ennominae
† Problongos
† P.baudiliensis
adult
Late Miocene
France
Mérit and Mérit 2008
Sohn et al. (2012) disputed the Geometridae affiliation of Problongosbaudiliensis.
5
Larentiinae
Hydriomena ?
† H.?protrita
adult
Late Eocene
USA
Cockerell 1922
6
unassigned
† Geometridites
† G.jordani
adult
Late Pliocene
Germany
Kernbach 1967
7
unassigned
† G.repens
larva
Late Pliocene
Germany
Kernbach 1967
8
unassigned
† G.larentiiformis
adult
Late Eocene
United Kingdom
Jarzembowski 1980
9
unassigned
† Phalaenites
† P.crenatus
adult
Early Miocene
Croatia
Heer 1849
10
unassigned
† P.obsoletus
adult
Early Miocene
Croatia
Heer 1849
11
unassigned
† P.proserpinae
adult
Late Oligocene-Early Miocene
France
Heer 1861
Kozlov (1988) considered this species as Geometridites sp.
12
unassigned
not stated
not stated
adult
Miocene
Dominican Republic
Grimaldi and Engel 2005: 568, fig. 13: 24
13
unassigned
not stated
not stated
larva
Miocene
Dominican Republic
Grimaldi and Engel 2005: 588, fig. 13: 58
14
unassigned
not stated
not stated
adult
Miocene
Dominican Republic
Grimaldi and Engel 2005: 588, fig. 13: 59, 60
15
unassigned
not stated
not stated
adult
Late Cretaceous
New Zealand
Harris and Raine 2002: 461, fig. 1
Sohn et al. (2012) treated this as a questionable geometrid fossil.
16
unassigned
not stated
not stated
pupa
Late Pleistocene
Japan
FIRGNE 1990: 101, fig. 10.3.1
FIRGNE is Fossil Insect Research Group for Nojiri-ko Excavation.
17
unassigned
not stated
not stated
not stated
Pleistocene-Holocene
Benin and Guinea
Handlirsch 1908: 1133
18
unassigned
not stated
not stated
not stated
Middle Eocene
Lutetian
Lewis 1992: 16
†: extinct.
Here we describe a new genus and species of Geometridae based on an adult specimen preserved in Dominican amber. The age of Dominican amber-bearing deposits is the late Early Miocene through early Middle Miocene, ca 15 to 20 Mya (Iturralde-Vinent and Macphee 1996). Dominican amber, with exquisite preservation, contains a very rich Miocene biota with more than 400 described insect species (Arillo and Ortuño 2005). To date, 30 fossil records within seven superfamilies of Lepidoptera have been reported in Dominican amber (Poinar et al. 1991; Poinar and Brown 1993; Hall et al. 2004; Grimaldi and Engel 2005; Peñalver and Grimaldi 2006; Sohn et al. 2012). All these fossil records belong to the lepidopteran clade Ditrysia.
Materials and methods
The type specimen in amber described herein is housed in Laboratorio Dominicano De Ambar Y Gemas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The specimen was examined and photographed by using a Nikon SMZ 18 dissecting microscope with an attached Nikon DS-Ri2 digital camera system and a Leica M205A with an attached Leica DMC5400 digital camera system. These devices used cool white LED illuminators. Cool white transmitted light passed through the specimen from the bottom up, and cool white light, emitted from double optical fibers, irradiated the specimen from two sides simultaneously. Images were prepared for illustration using Adobe Photoshop CS6. Wing index is defined as the ratio of wing width/wing length. The body length was measured from the apex of head to the terminal end of abdomen. Family-level classification follows van Nieukerken et al. (2011). Wing venation nomenclature is based on Wootton (1979).
The generic name is a combination of the prefix “Mio-” in reference to the Miocene, and “geometrid” in reference to the family name. The gender is masculine.
Diagnosis of genus.
Body length ca 5.7 mm, wingspan ca 20 mm. Antenna filiform. Forewing without fovea, R1 not anastomosing with Sc, no areole formed by veins R1 and Rs, R1 and Rs1 completely coincident, M2 arising midway between M1 and M3, anal veins 1A and 2A fused for its entire length. Hind wing with Rs running close to Sc + R1, and M2 absent.
Remarks.
The new genus can be distinguished from most extant or extinct geometrids by the absence of an areole formed by veins R1 and Rs. As Miogeometrida gen. nov. lacks M2 on the hind wing, affiliation with other subfamilies than Ennominae is excluded. Miogeometrida gen. nov. differs from most genera of Ennominae in its forewing without fovea and R1 not anastomosing with Sc. Miogeometrida gen. nov. is similar to genera such as Ekboarmia (Ennominae, Boarmiini, covered in Skou et al. 2017) and Iridopsis (Ennominae, Boarmiini, covered in McGuffin 1977) in venation and the absence of a fovea, but the antennae of the latter are pectinated in males. Apart from this, extant Iridopsis are much larger than Miogeometrida gen. nov. on average. Miogeometrida gen. nov. also shows similarities with genera such as Milocera, Chelotephrina, Tephrina, Isturgia and Macaria (Ennominae, Macariini, covered in Krüger 2001) in the forewing with R1 and Rs1 completely coincident and hind wing with two anal veins, but Miogeometrida gen. nov. differs from them in its forewing with 1A and 2A fused for their entire lengths.
Grimaldi and Engel (2005) mentioned three specimens of Geometridae from Dominican amber and provided a photo and a line drawing of one specimen (Grimaldi and Engel 2005: 588, fig. 13: 59, 60). According to the line drawing (Grimaldi and Engel 2005: 588, fig. 13: 60), the stem of M is present on its forewing. But in Miogeometrida gen. nov., the loss of the stem of M results in the formation of one large discal cell. Miogeometrida gen. nov. differs from the Eocene species Geometriditeslarentiiformis by the absence of the areole and R1 completely coincident with Rs1 on the forewing. Mérit and Mérit (2008) reported Miocene Problongos, whose forewing length is twice as long as that of Miogeometrida gen. nov. (22 mm vs. 8.9 mm).
Holotype: LEP-DA-2019001, male. Mouthparts, mid- and hind legs, abdominal sternum missing.
Etymology.
The specific name is dedicated to Chun Jen Shih, father of YuHong Shih, for his discovery of the type specimen and his efforts and dedication in collecting and promoting Dominican amber, especially his classification system for Dominican blue amber with the best quality known as Sky Blue Amber.
Locality and horizon.
La Búcara mine, Cordilliera Septentrional, Dominican Republic. La Toca Formation; late Early Miocene to early Middle Miocene.
Diagnosis.
As for the genus (see above), by monotypy.
Description.
Body slender, length 5.7 mm; wingspan ca 20 mm. Forewing length 8.9 mm; hind wing length 6.2 mm.
Mesoscutum large, with median suture. Mesoscutellum rhomboid, smaller than mesoscutum. Metascutum triangular. A comb-like epiphysis with setae on its inner side, arising from the inner wall of the foretibia (Fig. 1D); tarsus with five tarsomeres, pretarsus with a pair of claws and a median arolium.
Miogeometridachunjenshihi gen. et sp. nov., holotype, LEP-DA-2019001 A dorsal view B ventral view C forewing D foreleg E basal part of fore- and hind wings with scales F male genitalia, dorsal view. Scale bars: 2 mm (A, B); 1 mm (C); 0.5 mm (D, F); 0.2 mm (E).
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Scales covering both fore- and hind wings, hair-like scales visible on the base of wings (Fig. 1C, E). Forewing elongate-triangular with the termen slightly sinuous; forewing index 0.37; fovea absent. Forewing with eleven veins (Figs 1C, 2A); discal cell approximately half as long as forewing; Sc not anastomosing with R1; no areole formed by R1 and Rs; R1 and Rs1 completely coincident; Rs2 and Rs3 with common stem; M 3-branched; M1 continuous with stem of R; M2 arising midway between M1 and M3; CuA bifurcating, CuA1 originating near the end of discal cell, CuA2 originating beyond the middle of discal cell; CuP absent; 1A and 2A fused for their entire lengths. Hind wing broad (Figs 1C, 2B), with outer margin concave between veins, apical angle rounded; hind wing index 0.66; Sc+R1 strongly bent at its base; Rs approximated to Sc+R1 at the base; M2 absent; M1 and M3 almost parallel; CuA1 and CuA2 as in forewing; anal veins 1A+2A and 3A present. Wing coupling present, one strong frenular bristle on the anterior margin of the hind wing, retinaculum of the forewing indistinct.
Male genitalia (Fig. 1F) with valva simple; uncus reduced; socii long, slender, with bristles on the inner side.
Miogeometridachunjenshihi gen. et sp. nov., line drawings of LEP-DA-2019001 A forewing B hind wing. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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Miogeometrida gen. nov. can be assigned to Geometroidea based on forewing without spinarea (i.e., forewing-metathoracic aculeate locking device) and hind wing with basal part of the upper edge of discal cell markedly convex upwards, which are autapomorphies of the Geometroidea (Rajaei et al. 2015). In Geometroidea, the abdominal tympanal organ is an important diagnostic character, but the lateral and ventral parts of the abdomen of our specimen of Miogeometrida gen. nov. are damaged. It is thus impossible to determine whether a tympanal organ is present or not.
Although the essential apomorphy of Geometridae, i.e. a unique tympanal organ at the base of the abdomen, is not preserved for characterization, we chose to assign Miogeometrida gen. nov. to Geometridae. Based on the preserved and observable characters, Miogeometrida gen. nov. shows many similarities with Geometridae: (1) The size of Miogeometrida gen. nov. is in the common range of geometrids (wingspan ranges in most species from 20 to 45 mm; Heppner 2008a); (2) Hind wings of Miogeometrida gen. nov. are rounded as is the case in most species of Geometridae (Heppner 2008a); (3) Miogeometrida gen. nov. matches the major characters of geometrids in venation, such as forewing Rs4 stalked with Rs2 and Rs3, M2 not arising nearer to M3 than M1, and hind wing Sc bent strongly at its base (Minet and Scoble 1999). Although the first two similarities are also true for many other Lepidoptera, they can separate Miogeometrida gen. nov. from most sematurids and uraniids of Geometroidea.
We provide additional evidence to exclude three related Geometroidea families, i.e., Sematuridae, Uraniidae and Epicopeiidae. Sematuridae is a small family comprising only six extant genera and 40 species (van Nieukerken et al. 2011). An autapomorphy of Sematuridae are distally thickened antennae with swollen scape and elongate first flagellomere (Minet and Scoble 1999) – Miogeometrida gen. nov. does not have such an antenna. In addition, Miogeometrida gen. nov. with a wingspan of ca 20 mm, is obviously far smaller than sematurids whose wingspan range from 42 to 100 mm (Heppner 2008b). Moreover, Miogeometrida gen. nov. does not possess tails on the hind wings as found in most sematurids. In Uraniidae, the base of Rs4 is connate or stalked with M1, but separate from the other branches of Rs on the forewing, an apomorphy of the group (Minet and Scoble 1999). In Miogeometrida gen. nov., however, Rs4 is stalked with Rs2+3 on the forewing, which does not conform with the state in Uraniidae. Similarly, Miogeometrida gen. nov. can be distinguished from Epicopeiidae whose Rs4 is never stalked with Rs1 + Rs2 + Rs3.
Ennominae is the largest subfamily of Geometridae, comprising ca 10,000 species worldwide, classified in approximately 1100 genera (Pitkin 2002). Miogeometrida gen. nov. shows many similarities with some extant taxa. We assign Miogeometrida gen. nov. to Ennominae based on the absence of M2 on its hind wing that is considered as the traditionally diagnostic feature for this subfamily (Holloway 1994, Pitkin 2002). However, we cannot assign the new genus to tribe, mostly due to the poor preservation of its detailed morphological characters.
Acknowledgements
We appreciate the valuable comments and constructive suggestions from Gunnar Brehm (editor), Pasi Sihvonen (reviewer) and one anonymous reviewer. This research was supported by grants from Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No. D2020403002), State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (No.183131), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31730087, 41688103), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT-17R75), and Project of High-level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities (No. IDHT20180518).
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