[Re:] TRIASSIC moth??: genus Eoses

Thomas Schlemmermeyer termites at USP.BR
Tue Dec 15 21:57:23 CST 1998


 FRIENDS, rather unexpectedly I was hitten by this paleontological question.

 Unfortunately, my copies of "Die Stammesgeschichte der Insekten" (Willi Hennig)
 are in Ribeirao Preto, about 400 km from here. But, before Christmas
 I will read them.

 But the internet says that Norman Tindale described Eoses from a fossil
 from Queensland, Australia. When did he describe it?

 Hennig, at least, in his "Stammbaumentwurf" in the 1953-paper "Kritische
 Bemerkungen zum phylogenetischen System der Insekten", put the splitting of
 Amphiesmenoptera  in Trichoptera+Lepidoptera even back into the Perm.

 I suppose he did so by the sister-group criterion. The oldest known
 fossil is an Trichoptera of the early trias within Hennig's 1953-scheme.

 So,when was Eoses described, before or after 1953?

                               Thomas




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