title: The first ibis fly in mid-Cretaceous amber of France (Diptera: Athericidae).
abstract: A new genus and species of ibis fly is described from an isolated wing in amber from the Late Albian-Early Cenomanian of Charentes, southwestern France. Galloatherix incompletus gen. et sp. n., is the first Athericidae fossilized in Cretaceous amber, and only the eighth Mesozoic species. It adds to the diverse aquatic and semiaquatic paleobiota already identified from Charentese amber.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CP 50 - Entomologie, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris, France.; Email: anel@mnhn.fr.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nel
authors.affiliation: 3 rue de la Rochefoucauld, 60180 Nogent-sur-Oise, France.; Email: gaeldeploeg@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Gaël
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Ploëg
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 6118 Géosciences et OSUR, Université Rennes 1, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.; Email: vincent.perrichot@univ-rennes1.fr.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Perrichot
mesh_terms: D018647:Amber; D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005580:Fossils; D005602:France; D013045:Species Specificity; D014921:Wings, Animal / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
chemical_list: D018647:Amber