[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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