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@ARTICLE{Hagen:625247,
author = {Hagen, Maya and Kotthoff, Ulrich and Harms, Danilo and
Loria, Stephanie F.},
title = {{N}ew species of {L}echytia {B}alzan, 1892 ({A}rachnida:
{P}seudoscorpiones) from {B}urmese amber highlights 99
million years of morphological stasis},
journal = {Cretaceous research},
volume = {172},
issn = {0195-6671},
address = {London},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01063},
pages = {106120},
year = {2025},
abstract = {The pseudoscorpion genus Lechytia Balzan, 1892 (Chthoniidae
Daday, 1889: Lechytiinae Chamberlin, 1929) includes 27
extant species that are distributed across all continents
except Antarctica, and a single extinct species from
Dominican amber of Miocene age. We document the first record
of Lechytia from Burmese amber (Cenomanian: ∼99 Ma),
Lechytia finniae sp. nov., making it the oldest fossil
record for Lechytia and extending the known temporal range
of this group by more than 70 million years into the
Mesozoic. The new species differs from most extant Lechytia
species due to the distance between trichobothria sb and b
that are separated by at least one areolar diameter, and by
the absence of eyes. Since there is a close morphological
resemblance between L. finniae sp. nov. and extant Lechytia
species, the new fossil is placed in an extant genus and
represents yet another example of morphological stasis in
pseudoscorpions. The presence of Lechytia in Burmese amber
implies that this genus was present on the Burma Terrane in
the Cretaceous although no extant species are known from
this landmass today. The ecology of extant species may lend
support to a tropical forest environment on the Burma
Terrane.},
cin = {DOOR ; HAS-User / Hereon},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731 / I:(DE-H253)Hereon-20210428},
pnm = {6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G3},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)P-P05-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001464506100001},
doi = {10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106120},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625247},
}