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Articles In Press

Alexeev A.V. In Press. New jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal.
Bashkuev A.S. In Press. The first record of kaltanid scorpionflies (Insecta: Mecoptera) in the Permian of European Russia. Paleontological Journal.
Bybee S.M., Ogden T.H., Branham M.A., and Whiting M.F. In Press. Molecules, morphology and fossils: a comprehensive approach to odonate phylogeny and the evolution of the odonate wing. Cladistics. [Abstract]
Gross M. In Press. A limnic ostracod fauna from the surroundings of the Central Paratethys (Late Middle Miocene/Early Late Miocene; Styrian Basin; Austria). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. [Abstract]
Háva J. In Press. Globicornis rakovici n. sp., a new fossil species (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatomini) from Baltic amber. Alavesia.
Háva J., Prokop J., and Herrmann A. In Press. New fossil dermestid beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Baltic amber – III. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae.
Krivosheina M.G. In Press. On insect feeding on Cyanobacteria. Paleontological Journal.
Liu Y.-sh. and Ren D. In Press. Two new Jurassic stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Progress in Natural Science. [Abstract]
Liu M., Zhao Y.-y., and Ren D. In Press. Discovery of three new mordellids (Coleoptera, Tenebrionoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research. [Abstract]
Martin A.J., Rich Th.H., Poore G.C.B., Schultz M.B., Austin Ch.M., Kool L., and Vickers-Rich P. In Press. Fossil evidence in Australia for oldest known freshwater crayfish of Gondwana. Gondwana Research. [Abstract]
Ponomarenko A.G. In Press. New beetles (Coleoptera) from the Triassic of Northern European Russia. Paleontological Journal.
Tetlie O.E., Brandt D.S., and Briggs D.E.G. In Press. Ecdysis in sea scorpions (Chelicerata: Eurypterida). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Vasilenko D.V. In Press. Insect ovipositions on aquatic plant leaves Quereuxia from the Upper Cretaceous of the Amur Region. Paleontological Journal.
Wang B., Zhang H.-ch., Fang Y., Wang D.-j., and Ji Sh.-zh. In Press. New data on Cretaceous Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) from China. Cretaceous Research. [Abstract]
Zhang H. and Rasnitsyn A.P. In Press. Middle Jurassic Praeaulacidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

2008

Adamowicz S.J., Purvis A., and Wills M.A. 2008. Increasing morphological complexity in multiple parallel lineages of the Crustacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (12): 4786-4791. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Alexeev A.V. 2008. New jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and similar beetles from the Cretaceous and Early Paleogene of Asia. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 53-59. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Amos J. 2008. Secret 'dino bugs' revealed. BBC News. [Abstract]
Anderung C., Persson P., Bouwman A., Elburg R., and Götherström A. 2008. Fishing for ancient DNA. Forensic Science International: Genetics 2 (2): 104-107. [Abstract]
Anisyutkin L.N., Grachev V.G., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Vršanský P. 2008. Part II. Fossil Insects in the Cretaceous Mangrove Facies of Southern Negev, Israel. In: Krassilov V. and Rasnitsyn A., eds, Plant–arthropod interactions in the early angiosperm history. Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel. Sofia-Moscow & Leiden-Boston: Pensoft Publishers & BRILL, pp. 189-223. [Sample pages] [Abstract & Order form]

Anisyutkin L.N. and Gorochov A.V. 2008. A new genus and species of the cockroach family Blattulidae from Lebanese amber (Dictyoptera, Blattina). Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 43-46. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Arillo A. and Ortuño V.M. 2008. Did dinosaurs have any relation with dung-beetles? (The origin of coprophagy). Journal of Natural History 42 (19-20): 1405-1408. [Abstract]

Aristov D.S. 2008. New grylloblattids of the family Megakhosaridae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Permian of Russia. Paleontological Journal 42 (3): 269-272. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Aristov D.S. 2008. New Tatarian representatives of the subfamily Chaulioditinae (Insecta: Grylloblattida: Chaulioditidae) from European Russia. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 32-35. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Aristov D.S. 2008. Revision of the Permian genus Parasylviodes Martynov, 1940 (Grylloblattida: Liomopteridae). Far Eastern entomologist 186: 1-5. [PDF]

Aristov D.S and Bashkuev A.S. 2008. New insects (Insecta: Mecoptera, Grylloblattida) from the Middle Permian Chepanikha locality, Udmurtia. Paleontological Journal 42 (2): 159-165. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Aspöck U. and Aspöck H. 2008. Phylogenetic relevance of the genital sclerites of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola). Systematic Entomology 33 (1): 97-127. [Abstract]
Azar, D. and Engel M.S. 2008. A sphaeropsocid bark louse in Late Cretaceous amber from Siberia (Psocoptera: Sphaeropsocidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 111 (1-2): 141-146. [PDF]

Balke M., Gómez-Zurita J., Ribera I., Viloria A., Zillikens A., Steiner J., García M., Hendrich L., and Vogler A.P. 2008. Ancient associations of aquatic beetles and tank bromeliads in the Neotropical forest canopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (17): 6356-6361. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Beckemeyer, R.J. and Engel M.S. 2008. A second specimen of Permocoleus (Coleoptera) from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81 (1): 4-7. [Abstract] [PDF]
Bedatou E., Melchor R.N., Bellosi E., and Genise J.F. 2008. Crayfish burrows from Late Jurassic–Late Cretaceous continental deposits of Patagonia: Argentina. Their palaeoecological, palaeoclimatic and palaeobiogeographical significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257 (1-2): 169-184. [Abstract] [PDF]
Bellamy C.L. 2008. A World catalogue and bibliography of the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea), Volume 1: Introduction; Fossil Taxa; Schizopodidae; Buprestidae: Julodinae – Chrysochroinae: Poecilonotini. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Publishers, 625 pp. [Abstract & Order form]

Béthoux O. 2008. The insect fauna from the Permian of Lodève (Hérault, France): state of the art and perspectives. Journal of Iberian Geology 34 (1): 109-113. [PDF]
Béthoux O. and Briggs D.E.G. 2008. How Gerarus lost its head: stem-group Orthoptera and Paraneoptera revisited. Systematic Entomology 33 (3): 529-547. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Borkent A. 2008. The frog-biting midges of the World (Corethrellidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 1804: 1-456. [Abstract]
Bourgoin Th. and Szwedo J. 2008. The ‘cixiid-like’ fossil planthopper families. Bulletin of Insectology 61 (1): 107-108. [Abstract]
Braddy S.J., Poschmann M., and Tetlie O.E. 2008. Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod. Biology Letters 4 (1): 106-109. [Abstract]
Brandt D.S. 2008. Multiple-Rusophycus (arthropod ichnofossil) assemblages and their significance. Ichnos 15 (1): 25-36. [Abstract]
Britt B.B., Scheetz R.D., and Dangerfield A. 2008. A suite of dermestid beetle traces on dinosaur bone from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. Ichnos 15 (2): 59-71. [Abstract]
Budd G.E. 2008. Head structure in upper stem-group euarthropods. Palaeontology 51 (3): 561-573. [Abstract]

Carriol R.-P. 2008. New genus and new species of Cirripedia (Chthamalidae, Tetraclitidae, Archaeobalanidae and Balanidae) from the Middle Miocene of the faluns of Touraine (France). Zootaxa 1675: 31–48. [Abstract]
Chang H.-l., Zhang F., and Ren D. 2008. A new genus and two new species of fossil elaterids from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zootaxa 1785: 54–62. [Abstract]
Chang H.-l. and Ren D. 2008. New fossil beetles of the family Elateridae from the Jehol Biota of China (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Acta geologica sinica 82 (2): 236-243. [PDF]
Chin K. 2008. Pest friends in the Cretaceous. BOOK REVIEWED ‘What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by George Poinar, Jr & Roberta Poinar’. Nature 451: 1053. [Abstract]
Convey P., Gibson J.A.E., Hillenbrand C.-D., Hodgson D.A., Pugh Ph.J.A., Smellie J.L., and Stevens M.I. 2008. Antarctic terrestrial life – challenging the history of the frozen continent? Biological Reviews 83 (2): 103-117. [Abstract]
Currano E.D., Wilf P., Wing S.L., Labandeira C.C., Lovelock E.C., and Royer D.L. 2008. Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (6): 1960-1964. [Abstract] [PDF]

Delclòs, X., Nel A., Azar D., Bechly G., Dunlop J.A., Engel M.S., and Heads S.W. 2008. The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New palaeobiological and phylogenetic data, with the description of a new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 247 (3): 353-381. [request PDF]
Do Carmo D.A., Whatley R., De Queiroz Neto J.V., and Coimbra J.C. 2008. On the validity of two Lower Cretaceous non-marine ostracode genera: Biostratigraphic and paleogeographic implications. Journal of Paleontology 82 (4): 790–799. [Abstract]
Dunlop J.A., Brauckmann C., and Steur H. 2008. A Late Carboniferous fossil scorpion from the Piesberg, near Osnabrück, Germany. Fossil Record – Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 11 (1): 25–32. [PDF]
Dunlop J.A., Tetlie O.E., and Prendini L. 2008. Reinterpretation of the Silurian scorpion Proscorpius osborni (Whitfield): integrating data from Palaeozoic and Recent scorpions. Palaeontology 51 (2): 303-320. [Abstract]

Engel, M.S. 2008. An orussid wood wasp in amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Orussidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 111 (1-2): 39-44. [PDF]
Engels S., Bohncke S.J.P., Bos J.A.A., Heiri O., Vandenberghe J., and Wallinga J. 2008. Environmental inferences and chironomid-based temperature reconstructions from fragmentary records of the Weichselian Early Glacial and Pleniglacial periods in the Niederlausitz area (eastern Germany). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 260 (3-4): 405-416. [Abstract]

Fedotova Z.A. and Perkovsky E.E. 2008. New taxa of gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from Dubrovitsa (Rovno Amber). Vestnik zoologii 42 (1): 27-40. (in Russian, with English abstract) [PDF]

Genise J.F., Bedatou E., and Melchor R.N. 2008. Terrestrial crustacean breeding trace fossils from the Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina): palaeobiological and evolutionary significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 264 (1-2): 128-139. [Abstract]
Gibson G.A.P. 2008. Description of Leptoomus janzeni, n. gen. and n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Baltic amber, and discussion of its relationships and classification relative to Eupelmidae, Tanaostigmatidae and Encyrtidae. Zootaxa 1730: 1–26. [Abstract] [PDF]
Godunko R.J., Neumann Ch., and Krzemiński W. 2008. Fossil mayfly collections of the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt University, Berlin. II. Redescription of Baltameletus oligocaenicus Demoulin, 1968 with notes on Ameletidae McCafferty, 1991 (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Eocene Baltic amber. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 58 (1): 105-114. [PDF]
Golub V.B. and Popov Yu.A. 2008. A new species of Tingidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 86-89. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Gratshev V.G. and Perkovsky E.E. 2008. New species of the genus Glaesotropis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthribidae) from Rovno amber. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 60-62. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Grichanov I.Ya. 2008. Systematic notes on Sciapodinae from Baltic amber and on Dolichopodidae from Tanzanian copal (Diptera). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4 (1): 137-139. [PDF]
Grimaldi, D.A. and Engel M.S. 2008. An unusual, primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma). American Museum Novitates 3611: 1-17. [Abstract] [PDF]

Hay A. 2008. Buried treasure. The Bulletin, Dec. 18, 2007 – Jan. 8, 2008, pp. 84-87. [PDF]
Hayashi M., Yahiro K., and Kitabayashi E. 2008. Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Saijo Formation of Higashi-hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34: 89-93. (in Japanese, with English abstract) [PDF]
Hayashi M., Yahiro K., and Kitabayashi E. 2008. Middle Pleistocene fossil insects from the Yoshino Formation of Kawachi-machi, Kumamoto City, Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34: 95-98. (in Japanese, with English abstract) [PDF]
Heads S.W. 2008. The first fossil Proscopiidae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Eumastacoidea) with comments on the historical biogeography and evolution of the family. Palaeontology 51 (2): 499–507. [Abstract] [PDF]
Hendricks J.R. and Lieberman B.S. 2008. New phylogenetic insights into the Cambrian radiation of arachnomorph arthropods. Journal of Paleontology 82 (3): 585–594. [Abstract]
Heuss K. 2008. Zur Taxonomie und Ökologie der Schlammkäfer des Baltischen Bernsteins mit einem Gattungsschlüssel und der Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 118 (3): 131-134. [PDF]

Hu Sh., Dilcher D.L., Jarzen D.M., and Taylor D.W. 2008. Early steps of angiosperm–pollinator coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (1): 240-245. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Huang D.-y. and Nel A. 2008. A new Middle Jurassic aphid family (Insecta: Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Sinojuraphididae fam. nov.) from Inner Mongolia, China. Palaeontology 51 (3): 715-719. [Abstract]
Huang D.-y., Nel A., and Petrulevičius J.F. 2008. New evolutionary evidence of Grylloblattida from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, north-east China (Insecta, Polyneoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152 (1): 17-24. [Abstract] [PDF]
Huang J.-d., Ren D., Sinitshenkova N.D., and Shih C.-k. 2008. New fossil mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Insect Science 15 (2): 193-198. [Abstract] [PDF]

Iannuzzi R. and Labandeira C.C. 2008. The oldest record of external foliage feeding and the expansion of insect folivory on land. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 101 (1): 79-94. [Abstract]

Jagt J.W.M., Jaskuła I. (née Jabłeka), Witek A., and Jagt-Yazykova E.A. 2008. A new record of the Late Cretaceous cirripede Eoverruca hewitti (Verrucomorpha, Proverrucidae) from southern Poland. Zootaxa 1671: 59–68. [Abstract]
Johnson N.F., Musetti L., and Masner L. 2008. The Cretaceous scelionid genus Proteroscelio Brues (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea). American Museum Novitates 3603: 1-7. [Abstract] [PDF]

Kerr P.H. and Winterton S.L. 2008. Do parasitic flies attack mites? Evidence in Baltic amber. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (1): 9-13. [Abstract] [PDF]
Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. A new genus and species of timber beetle (Coleoptera: Lymexylidae) from the Baltic amber. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 63-65. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Krassilov V. 2008. Evidence of temporary mining in the Cretaceous fossil mine assemblage of Negev, Israel. Insect Science 15 (3): 285–290. [Abstract]
Krassilov V. 2008. Mine and gall predation as top down regulation in the plant–insect systems from the Cretaceous of Negev, Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 261 (3-4): 261-269. [Abstract]
Krause J.M., Bown T.M., Bellosi E.S., and Genise J.F. 2008. Trace fossils of cicadas in the Cenozoic of Central Patagonia, Argentina. Palaeontology 51 (2): 405-418. [Abstract]
Kukalová-Peck J. 2008. Phylogeny of higher taxa in Insecta: finding synapomorphies in the extant fauna and separating them from homoplasies. Evolutionary Biology 35 (1): 4-51. [Abstract] [PDF]
Kupryjanowicz J. and Makarkin V.N. 2008. Archiconiocompsa prisca Enderlein (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae): The first neuropteran fossil in Rovno amber (Ukraine). Entomologica Fennica 19 (1): 25-31. [PDF]
Kürschner W.M., Kvaček Z., and Dilcher D.L. 2008. The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (2): 449-453. [Abstract] [request PDF]

Labandeira C.C. 2008. Assessing the fossil record of plant-insect associations: ichnodata versus body-fossil data. SEPM Special Publication 88: - .
Lak M., Néraudeau D., Nel A., Cloetens P., Perrichot V., and Tafforeau P. 2008. Phase contrast X-ray synchrotron imaging: opening access to fossil inclusions in opaque amber. Microscopy and Microanalysis 14 (3): 251-259. [Abstract in English] [Abstract in French and a video clip]
Larocque L. and Finsinger W. 2008. Late-glacial chironomid-based temperature reconstructions for Lago Piccolo di Avigliana in the southwestern Alps (Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257 (1-2): 207-223. [Abstract] [PDF]
Liljeblad J., Ronquist F., Nieves-Aldrey J.-L., Fontal-Cazalla F., Ros-Farre P., Gaitros D., and Pujade-Villar J. 2008. A fully web-illustrated morphological phylogenetic study of relationships among oak gall wasps and their closest relatives (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Zootaxa 1796: 1–73. [Abstract] [PDF]
Lin Q.-b., Huang D.-y., and Nel A. 2008. A new genus of Chifengiinae (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Middle Jurassic (Jiulongshan Formation) of Inner Mongolia, China. Comptes Rendus Palevol 7 (4): 205-209. [Abstract]
Liu Y.-sh., Ren D., Sinitshenkova N.D., and Shih Ch.-k. 2008. Three new stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. Acta geologica sinica 82 (2): 249-256. [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. 2008. Ptychopteridae (Insecta: Diptera): History of its study and limits of the family. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 66-74. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]

Martins Neto R.G. and Gallego O.F. 2008. The Triassic insect fauna from Argentina: Blattoptera and Coleoptera from Ischichuca Formation (Bermejo Basin), La Rioja Province. Ameghiniana 44 (1): 1-15.
Menon F. and Makarkin V.N. 2008. New fossil lacewings and antlions (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato formation of Brazil. Palaeontology 51 (1): 149-162. [Abstract] [PDF]
Meyer H.W., Wasson M.S., and Frakes B.J. 2008. Development of an integrated paleontological database and Web site of Florissant collections, taxonomy, and publications. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 159-177. [Abstract]
Mischke S. and Holmes J.A. 2008. Applications of lacustrine and marginal marine Ostracoda to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, 15th International Symposium on Ostracoda. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 264 (3-4): iii-iv+211-338. [Table of Contents]

Montreuil O. 2008. Biogeographic hypothesis explaining the diversity of the genus Amphimallon Berthold, 1827, in the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Rhizotrogini). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259 (4): 436-452. [Abstract]
Mostovski M.M. 2008. Contributions to the study of fossil snipe-flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae). The genus Protorhagio. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 75-80. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]

Nel A.N., Fleck G., Garrouste R., and Gand G. 2008. The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin (Insecta). Journal of Iberian Geology 34 (1): 115-122. [PDF]
Nel A., Neraudeau D., Perrichot V., Girard V., and Gomez B. 2008. A new dragonfly family from the Upper Cretaceous of France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (1): 165-168. [PDF]
Nel A., Prokop J., and Ross A.J. 2008. New genus of leaf-mimicking katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from the Late Eocene–Early Oligocene of France and England. Comptes Rendus Palevol 7 (4): 211-216. [Abstract]

O'Brien N.R., Meyer H.W, and Harding I.C. 2008. The role of biofilms in fossil preservation, Florissant Formation, Colorado. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 19-31. [Abstract]
Orr P.J., Briggs D.E.G., and Kearns S.L. 2008. Taphonomy of exceptionally preserved crustaceans from the Upper Carboniferous of Southeastern Ireland. Palaios 23 (5): 298-312. [Abstract]

Peñalver E., Grimaldi D.A., and Delclòs X. 2008. Early spider web. In: McGraw-Hill yearbook of science & technology. New York etc.: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., pp. 103-105. [request PDF]
Penney D. 2008. Dominican Amber Spiders: A comparative palaeontological–neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. Siri Scientific Press, 176 pp. [Excerpt and ordering information]
Perkovsky E.E. 2008. First finding of syninclusion of ants Lasius schiefferdeckeri (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and aphids Germaraphis (Homoptera, Aphidinea) in Baltic amber. Vestnik zoologii 42 (2): 180.
Perkovsky E.E. and Fedotova Z.A. 2008. New gall midge taxa of the subfamilies Porricondylinae and Lasiopterinae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from the Rovno Amber. Paleontological Journal 42 (2): 166-175. [Abstract]
Perrichot V., Lacau S., Néraudeau D., and Nel A. 2008. Fossil evidence for the early ant evolution. Naturwissenschaften 95 (2): 85-90. [Abstract] [PDF]
Perrichot V. and Nel A. 2008. Eocene bethylid wasps from French amber (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 248 (1): 91-101. [Abstract]
Perrichot V., Nel A., Néraudeau D., Lacau S., and Guyot T. 2008. New fossil ants in French Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 95 (2): 91-97. [Abstract] [PDF]
Petrov A.V. and Perkovsky E.E. 2008. New species of bark beetles from Rovno amber (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Paleontological Journal 42 (4): 406-408. [English PDF] [Russian PDF]

Poinar G.O. and Buckley R. 2008. Compluriscutula vetulum (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), a new genus and species of hard tick from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110 (2): 445-450. [Abstract]
Poinar G., Jr, Kirejtshuk A.G., and Buckley R. 2008. Pleuroceratos burmiticus, n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110 (1): 250-257. [Abstract]
Pott Ch., Labandeira C.C., Krings M., and Kerp H. 2008. Fossil insect eggs and ovipositional damage on bennettitalean leaf cuticles from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Austria. Journal of Paleontology 82 (4): 778–789. [Abstract]

Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. New hymenopteran insects (Insecta: Vespida) from the Lower or Middle Jurassic of India. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 81-85. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Ren D., Nel A., and Prokop J. 2008. New early griffenfly, Sinomeganeura huangheensis from the Late Carboniferous of northern China (Meganisoptera: Meganeuridae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 38: 223-229. [PDF]

Roberts A.K., Smith D.M., Guralnick R.P., Cushing P.E., and Krieger J. 2008. An outline morphometric approach to identifying fossil spiders: A preliminary examination from the Florissant Formation. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 105-116. [Abstract]
Ross A.J. and Ross E. 2008. Caddisflies: the underwater architects. Ichnos 15 (1): 39-41.
Rudkin D.M., Young G.A., and Nowlan G.S. 2008. The oldest horseshoe crab: a new xiphosurid from Late Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten deposits, Manitoba, Canada. Palaeontology 51 (1): 1–9. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rust J., Petrulevičius J.F., and Nel A. 2008. The first damselflies from the lowermost Eocene of Denmark, with a description of a new subfamily (Odonata, Zygoptera: Dysagrionidae). Palaeontology 51 (3): 709-713. [Abstract]

Sarzetti L.C., Labandeira C.C., and Genise J.F. 2008. A leafcutter bee trace fossil from the Middle Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina, and a review of megachilid (Hymenoptera) ichnology. Palaeontology 51 (4): 933-941. [Abstract]

Schultz T.R. and Brady S.G. 2008. Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105 (14): 5435-5440. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Selden P.A., Baker A.S., and Phipps K.J. 2008 An oribatid mite (Arachnida: Acari) from the Oxford Clay (Jurassic: Upper Callovian) of South Cave Station quarry, Yorkshire, UK. Palaeontology 51 (3): 623-633. [Abstract]
Shcherbakov D.E. 2008 [2007]. Mesozoic Velocipedinae (Nabidae s.l.) and Ceresopseidae (Reduvioidea), with notes on the phylogeny of Cimicomorpha (Heteroptera). Russian Entomological Journal 16 (4): 401–414. [PDF]
Shcherbakov D.E. 2008. On Permian and Triassic insect faunas in relation to biogeography and the Permian–Triassic crisis. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 15-31. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Shmakov A.S. 2008. The Jurassic thrips Liassothrips crassipes (Martynov, 1927) and its taxonomic position in the order Thysanoptera (Insecta). Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 47-52. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Smith D.M. 2008. A comparison of plant-insect associations in the middle Eocene Green River Formation and the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation and their climatic implications. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 89-103. [Abstract]
Smith J.J., Hasiotis S.T., and Kraus M.J. 2008. Naktodemasis bowni: new ichnogenus and ichnospecies for adhesive meniscate burrows (AMB), and paleoenvironmental implications, Paleogene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 82 (2): 267-278. [Abstract] [PDF]
Solórzano Kraemer M.M. and Evenhuis N.L. 2008. The first keroplatid (Diptera: Keroplatidae) species from the Lower Eocene amber of Vastan, Gujarat, India. Zootaxa 1816: 57–60. [Abstract] [PDF]

Stary J. 2008. The wing stalk in Diptera, with some notes on the higher-level phylogeny of the order. European Journal of Entomology 105 (1): 27–33. [Abstract]
Szwedo J. 2008. Achilidae from the Eocene Baltic amber. Bulletin of Insectology 61 (1): 109-110. [Abstract]
Szwedo J. 2008. Paradise Lost? – Cretaceous and Palaeogene diversification of planthoppers and leafhoppers. Bulletin of Insectology 61 (1): 111-112. [Abstract]

Tetlie O.E. and Dunlop J.A. 2008. Geralinura carbonaria (Arachnida; Uropygi) from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA, and the Origin of Subchelate Pedipalps in Whip Scorpions. Journal of Paleontology 82 (2): 299-312. [Abstract]

Veatch S.W. and Meyer H.W. 2008. History of paleontology at the Florissant fossil beds, Colorado. The Geological Society of America Special Paper 435: 1–18. [Abstract]
Virgili C. 2008. The Permian-Triassic transition: Historical review of the most important ecological crises with special emphasis on the Iberian Peninsula and Western-Central Europe. Journal of Iberian Geology 34 (1): 123-158. [PDF]
Vitali F. 2008. A new species of Tyrtaeus Champion, 1913 from Dominican amber (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae). Entomapeiron (P. S.) 3 (1): 11-15. [Abstract]

Vitali F. 2008. Systematic revision of the fossil cerambycids from Geiseltal (Coleoptera Cerambycidae). Entomapeiron (P. S.) 3 (1): 1-10. [Abstract]

Voigt S. 2008. Tunnel-and-chamber burrows: evidence for fossorial behavior of insects in Permo-Carboniferous alluvial plain deposits? SEPM Special Publication 88: - .
Vršanský P. 2008. A complete larva of a Mesozoic (Early Cenomanian) cockroach (Insecta: Blattaria: Blattulidae) from the Sisteron amber (Alpes de Haute Provence, SE France). Geologica Carpathica 59 (3): 269-272. [Abstract] [PDF]
Vršanský P. 2008. Late Jurassic cockroaches (Insecta, Blattaria) from the Houtiyn-Hotgor locality in Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 42 (1): 36-42. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Vršanský P. 2008. New blattarians and a review of dictyopteran assemblages from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (1): 129-136. [Abstract] [PDF]

Wang B., Zhang H.-ch., Fang Y., and Zhang Y.-t. 2008. A revision of Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Jurassic of China with descriptions of new taxa and new combinations. Geological Journal 43 (1): 1-18. [Abstract]
Wang B., Zhang H.-ch., and Jarzembowski E.A. 2008. A new genus and species of Palaeontinidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Zootaxa 1751: 65-68. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Wedmann S. and Yeates D.K. 2008. Eocene records of bee flies (Insecta, Diptera, Bombyliidae, Comptosia): their palaeobiogeographic implications and remarks on the evolutionary history of bombyliids. Palaeontology 51 (1): 231-240. [Abstract] [PDF]
Wichard W. and Neumann C. 2008. Rhyacophila quadrata n. sp., a new caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Eocene Baltic amber. Fossil Record – Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 11 (1): 19-23. [PDF]
Wilf P. 2008. Insect-damaged fossil leaves record food web response to ancient climate change and extinction. New Phytologist 178 (3): 486-502. [Abstract] [PDF]
Wilson G.D.F. 2008. Gondwanan groundwater: subterranean connections of Australian phreatoicidean isopods (Crustacea) to India and New Zealand. Invertebrate Systematics 22 (2): 301-310. [Abstract]
Whitfield J.B. and Kjer K.M. 2008. Ancient rapid radiations of insects: challenges for phylogenetic analysis. Annual Review of Entomology 53: 449-472. [Abstract]

Yao Y., Cai W., and Ren D. 2008. New Jurassic fossil true bugs of Pachymeridiidae (Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha) from Northeast China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 82 (1): 35-47. [download or request PDF]
Yelinek K. and Chin K. 2008. Probable dung beetle burrows associated with Daemonelix beaver burrows in the Miocene Harrison Formation, Nebraska, U.S.A. SEPM Special Publication 88: - .

Zavortink T.J. and Poinar G.O., Jr. 2008. Toxorhynchites (Toxorhynchites) mexicanus, n. sp. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Mexican amber: a New World species with Old World affinities. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110 (1): 116–125. [Abstract]
Zessin W. 2008. Neue Insekten aus der Unteren Trias (Buntsandstein) von Mallorca, Spanien (Blattaria, Coleoptera, Diptera, Heteroptera, Orthopteroidea und Homoptera). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 11 (1): 99-101.
Zessin W. 2008. Überblick über die paläozoischen Libellen (Insecta, Odonatoptera). Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 11 (1): 5-32.
Zessin W., Žalohar J., and Hitij T. 2008. A new fossil dragonfly (Insecta, Odonata, Libellulidae) of the Miocene (Lower-Sarmatian) of the Tunjice Hills, Slovenia. Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 11 (1): 86-96. [request PDF]
Zhang B., Ren D., and Pang H. 2008. New dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata: Gomphaeschnidae) from the Yixian Formation in Inner Mongolia, China. Progress in Natural Science 18 (1): 59-64. [PDF]
Zhang B., Ren D., and Pang H. 2008. Telmaeshna paradoxica gen. et sp. nov., a new fossil dragonfly (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera) from the Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China. Zootaxa 1681: 62–68. [Abstract] [PDF]
Zhang B., Ren D., Pang H., and Shih Ch.-k. 2008. A water-skiing chresmodid from the Middle Jurassic in Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China (Polyneoptera: Orthopterida). Zootaxa 1762: 53–62. [Abstract] [download or request PDF]
Zhang K., Yang D., and Ren D. 2008. A new genus and species of Middle Jurassic rhagionids from China (Diptera, Rhagionidae). Biologia 63 (1): 113-116. [Abstract with references] [PDF]
Zhang K., Yang D., and Ren D. 2008. Middle Jurassic fossils of the genus Sharasargus from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera: Archisargidae). Entomological Science 11 (2): 269–272. [Abstract] [PDF]

Zhang K., Yang D., Ren D., and Ge F.-ch. 2008. New Middle Jurassic tangle-veined flies from Inner Mongolia, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (1): 161-164. [PDF]
Zhang X.-w., Ren D., Pang H., and Shih Ch.-k. 2008. A new genus and species of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Gryllones) from Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Yixian Formation, Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa 1702: 26–40. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Zherikhin V.V., Ponomarenko A.G., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. Introduction into palaeoentomology. Moscow: KMK Press, 371 pp. (in Russian) [Excerpt]

2007

Anisyutkin L.N. 2007. New cockroaches from the Upper Carboniferous of Siberia (Insecta: Dictyoptera, Mylacridina). Paleontological Journal 41 (5): 542-548. [Abstract]
Azar D. 2007. Preservation and accumulation of biological inclusions in Lebanese amber and their significance. Comptes Rendu Palevol 6 (1-2): 151-156. [Abstract] [PDF]
Azar D., Adaymeh C., and Jreich N. 2007. Paleopsychoda zherikhini, a new Cretaceous species of moth flies from Taimyr amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae). African Invertebrates 48 (1): 163-168. [Abstract] [PDF]
Azar D., Tanchy A., and Perrichot V. 2007. The oldest Sycoracinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the French Cretaceous amber. Alavesia 1: 5-10. [PDF]

Baum E., Dressler C., and Beutel R.G. 2007. Head structures of Karoophasma sp. (Hexapoda, Mantophasmatodea) with phylogenetic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45 (2): 104-119. [Abstract]
Beattie R. 2007. New insect discoveries at the Upper Jurassic Talbragar fish beds, New South Wales, Australia. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 247. [HTML] [PDF]
Beattie R. 2007. The geological setting and palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological reconstructions of the Upper Permian insect beds at Belmont, New South Wales, Australia. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 41-57. [Abstract] [PDF]
Beckemeyer R.J. 2007. Correct county and township for the Elmo, Kansas Lower Permian fossil insect locality. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110 (1-2): 125-126.
Beckemeyer R.J. and Hall J.D. 2007. Permopanorpa inaequalis Tillyard, 1926 (Insecta: Holometabola: Panorpida: Permopanorpidae): A fossil mecopteroid newly reported for the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110 (1-2): 23-29. [Abstract]
Beckemeyer R.J. and Hall J.D. 2007. The entomofauna of the Lower Permian fossil insect beds of Kansas and Oklahoma, USA. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 23-39. [Abstract] [PDF]
Bellés X. and Vitali F. 2007. New fossil spider beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera Ptinidae). Entomapeiron (P. S.) 2 (2): 17-28. [Abstract]
Béthoux O. 2007. Archaeorthoptera wing venation nomenclature: A reply to Gorokhov. Paleontological Journal 41 (3): 338-340. [PDF]
Béthoux O. 2007. Cladotypic taxonomy applied: titanopterans are orthopterans. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 65: 135-156. [PDF]
Béthoux O. 2007. Emptying the Paleozoic wastebasket for insects: members of a Carboniferous 'protorthopterous family' assigned to natural groups. Alavesia 1: 41-48. [PDF]
Béthoux O. 2007. Ordinal assignment of the genus Tococladus Carpenter 1996 (Insecta: Archaeorthoptera). Alavesia 1: 3. [PDF]
Béthoux O., Beattie R.G., and Nel A. 2007. Wing venation and relationships of the order Glosselytrodea (Insecta). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 31 (3): 285-296. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Béthoux O. and Beckemeyer R.J. 2007. New and rare insect species from the Wellington Formation (Orthoptera, Grylloblattodea; Lower Permian, USA). Alavesia 1: 49-61. [PDF]
Béthoux O., Nel A., Schneider J.W., and Gand G. 2007. Lodetiella magnifica nov. gen. and nov. sp. (Insecta: Palaeodictyoptera; Permian), an extreme case in wing morphology of palaeopterous insects. Geobios 40 (2): 181-189. [Abstract] [PDF]
Bílý S. and Kirejtschuk A.G. 2007 [for 2006]. Philanthaxoides gallicus gen. nov., sp. nov. from the Lowermost Eocene French amber (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Folia Heyrovskyana, Series A 14 (4): 181-186. [request PDF]
Blagoderov V. 2007. New species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Palaeocene Sakhalin Amber, Russia. Alavesia 1: 27-36. [PDF]
Blagoderov V., Grimaldi D.A., and Fraser N.C. 2007. How time flies for flies: diverse Diptera from the Triassic of Virginia and early radiation of the order. American Museum Novitates 3572: 1-39. [Abstract] [PDF]
Boyer S.L. and Giribet G. 2007. A new model Gondwanan taxon: systematics and biogeography of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), with a taxonomic revision of genera from Australia and New Zealand. Cladistics 23 (4): 337-361. [Abstract]
Brauckmann C. and Gröning E. 2007. A first record of Insecta from the Late Jurassic sequence of the Langenberg near Oker, Lower Saxony (Germany). Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 6: 45-48. [PDF]
Brauckmann C. and Herd K.J. 2007. A subcircular insect wing from the Late Carboniferous of Osnabrück, Germany. Clausthaler Geowissenschaften 6: 79-85. [PDF]
Brauckmann C., Schöllmann L., and Gröning E. 2007. Haemolymph-sucking on Carboniferous insects: presumed parasitic mites (Acarina) on Vorhalle Neoptera. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 43: 57-63. [request PDF]
Brothers D.J. and Mostovski M.B., eds. 2007. Congress Proceedings Fossils X 3, Pretoria, South Africa, 7-11 February 2005. Pietermaritzburg: Natal Museum, 249 pp. [Table of contents]
Brown B.V. 2007. A further new genus of primitive phorid fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Baltic Amber and its phylogenetic implications. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 513: 1-14. [PDF]

Cameron S.L., Lambkin C.L., Barker S.C., and Whiting M.F. 2007. A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Diptera: whole genome sequence data accurately resolve relationships over broad timescales with high precision. Systematic Entomology 32 (1): 40-59. [Abstract] [PDF]
Chang H., Ren D., and Shih Ch.-k. 2007. New fossil elaterid (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Elateridae) from Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Progress in Natural Science 17 (10): 1244-1249. [PDF]

Davis R.B., Minter N.J., and Braddy S.J. 2007. The neoichnology of terrestrial arthropods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255 (3-4): 284-307. [Abstract] [PDF]
Davis S.R. and Engel M.S. 2007. A new ambrosia beetle in Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae). Alavesia 1: 121-124. [PDF]
Davis S.R. and Engel M.S. 2007. Cossonine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 39 (2): 803-820. [Abstract]
Delclòs X., Arillo A., Peñalver E., Barrón E., Soriano C., Lópes Del Valle R., Bernárdez E., Corral C., and Ortuño V. 2007. Fossiliferous amber deposits from the Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain. Comptes Rendu Palevol 6 (1-2): 135-149. [SummaryPlus] [PDF]
Doitteau G. and Nel A. 2007. Chironomid midges from early Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Chironomidae). Zootaxa 1404: 1-66. [Abstract]
Dunlop J.A. 2007. A large parasitengonid mite (Acari, Erythraeoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Fossil Record – Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 10 (2): 91-98. [Abstract]
Dunlop J.A., Kamenz C., and Scholtz G. 2007. Reinterpreting the morphology of the Jurassic scorpion Liassoscorpionides. Arthropod Structure & Development 36 (2): 245-252. [Abstract]
Dunlop J.A., Zhou G.R.S., and Braddy S.J. 2007. The affinities of the Carboniferous whip spider Graeophonus anglicus Pocock, 1911 (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98 (2): 165-178. [Abstract]
Duringer Ph., Schuster M., Genise J.F., Mackaye H.T., Vignaud P., and Brunet M. 2007. New termite trace fossils: galleries, nests and fungus combs from the Chad Basin of Africa (Upper Miocene-Lower Pliocene). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 251 (3-4): 323-353. [Abstract]
Dzik J. and Sulej T. 2007. A review of the early Late Triassic Krasiejów biota from Silesia, Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 64: 3-27. [PDF]

Engel M.S. and Grimaldi D.A. 2007. Cretaceous Scolebythidae and phylogeny of the family (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea). American Museum Novitates 3568: 1-16. [Abstract] [PDF]
Engel M.S. and Grimaldi D.A. 2007. New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110 (3-4): 159-168.
Engel M.S. and Grimaldi D.A. 2007. The neuropterid fauna of Dominican and Mexican amber (Neuropterida, Megaloptera, Neuroptera). American Museum Novitates 3587: 1-58. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Engel M.S., Grimaldi D.A., and Krishna K. 2007. A synopsis of Baltic amber termites (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B 372: 1-20. [PDF]
Engel M.S., Grimaldi D.A., and Krishna K. 2007. Primitive termites from the Early Cretaceous of Asia (Isoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B 371: 1-32. [PDF]
Engel M.S. and Haas F. 2007. Family-group names for earwigs (Dermaptera). American Museum Novitates 3567: 1-20. [Abstract] [PDF]
Engel M.S. and Krishna K. 2007. Drywood termites in Dominican amber (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 57 (2): 263-275.
Engel M.S. and Krishna K. 2007. New Dolichorhinotermes from Ecuador and in Mexican amber (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). American Museum Novitates 3592: 1-8. [Abstract] [PDF]
Engel M.S. and Krishna K. 2007. Reticulitermes Holmgren, 1913 (Insecta, Isoptera): Proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 64 (4): 230–234. [Abstract]
Engel M.S. and Krishna K. 2007. Two overlooked family-group names for fossil termites (Isoptera: Mastotermitidae). Entomological News 118 (1): 105-106.
Erwin D.M. and Schick K.N. 2007. New Miocene oak galls (Cynipini) and their bearing on the history of cynipid wasps in western North America. Journal of Paleontology 81 (3): 568-580. [Abstract] [HTML]

Fang Y., Zhang H.-ch., Wang B., and Zhang Y.-t. 2007. New taxa of Aboilinae (Insecta, Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Zootaxa 1637: 55–62. [Abstract]
Fedotova Z.A. and Perkovsky E.E. 2007. New gall midges of the subfamily Lestremiinae (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) from the Rovno Amber. Paleontological Journal 41 (4): 437-450. [Abstract]
Fedotova Z.A. and Perkovsky E.E. 2007. Problems and prospects in the study of fossil gall midges. Reply to the criticism of M. Jaschhof. Paleontological Journal 41 (6): 696-703.
Fürsich F.T., Sha J.-g., Jiang B., and Pan Y.-h. 2007. High resolution palaeoecological and taphonomic analysis of Early Cretaceous lake biota, western Liaoning (NE-China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253 (3-4): 434-457. [Abstract] [PDF]

García-Bellido D.C. and Collins D. 2007. Reassessment of the genus Leanchoilia (Arthropoda, Arachnomorpha) from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeontology 50 (3): 693–709. [Abstract]
Genise J.F., Melchor R.N., Bellosi E.S., González M.G., and Krause M. 2007. New insect pupation chambers (Pupichnia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 28 (3): 545-559. [Abstract] [PDF]
Ghosh S.C., Pal T.K. and Nandi A. 2007. First record of an aquatic beetle larva (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Parsora Formation (Permo-Triassic), India. Palaeontology 50 (6): 1335-1340. [Abstract] [PDF]
Gibson G.A.P., Read J., and Huber J.T. 2007. Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 51-146. [Download this huge PDF or request a low resolution PDF]
Gingras M.K., Lalond S.V., Amskold L., and Konhauser K.O. 2007. Wintering chironomids mine oxygen. Palaios 22 (4): 433-438. [Abstract]
Godunko R.J. 2007. Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil subgenus Nestormeus Godunko, 2004 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae: Ecdyonurus) from the Baltic amber (Eocene). Zootaxa 1661: 63–68. [Abstract] [PDF]
Gorokhov A.V. 2007. New and little known orthopteroid insects (Polyneoptera) from fossil resins: Communication 2. Paleontological Journal 41 (2): 156-166. [Abstract]
Gorokhov A.V. 2007. The first representative of the suborder Mesotitanina from the Paleozoic and notes on the system and evolution of the order Titanoptera (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Paleontological Journal 41 (6): 621-625. [Abstract]
Gupta N.S., Briggs D.E.G., Collinson M.E., Evershed R.P., Michels R., and Pancost R.D. 2007. Molecular preservation of plant and insect cuticles from the Oligocene Enspel Formation, Germany: Evidence against derivation of aliphatic polymer from sediment. Organic Geochemistry 38 (3): 404-418. [Abstract]
Gupta N.S., Tetlie O.E., Briggs D.E.G., and Pancost R.D. 2007. The fossilization of eurypterids: a result of molecular transformationn. Palaios 22 (4): 439-447. [Abstract]

Harris A.C., Bannister J.M., and Lee D.E. 2007. Fossil scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Diaspididae) in life position on an angiosperm leaf from an Early Miocene lake deposit, Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 37 (1): 1-13. [Abstract]
Hauser M. and Fisher E.M. 2007. The identity of the fossil Psilocephala tarsalis (Statz, 1940) (Diptera: Asiloidea). Zootaxa 1465: 65-68. [Abstract] [PDF]
Hauser M. and Winterton S.L. 2007. A new fossil genus of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae: Philopotinae) from Baltic Amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 100 (2): 152-156. [Abstract] [PDF]
Hinojosa-Díaz I.A. and Engel M.S. 2007. A new fossil orchid bee in Colombian copal (Hymenoptera, Apidae). American Museum novitates 3589: 1-7. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Holmes B. 2007. Why beetles won the evolutionary game. The New Scientist 193 (2594): 17. [Abstract]
Hong Y.-c. 2007. Discovery of the fossil glosselytrods (Insecta: Glosselytrodea) from Shaanxi, China. Acta entomologica sinica 50 (3): 271-280. [Abstract in Chinese] [request PDF]
Hong Y.-c. and Zhang Z.-J. 2007. Reclassification of fossil Orthophlebiidae (Insecta: Mecoptera). Entomotaxonomia 29 (1): 26-36. [Abstract]
Hormiga G., Alvarez-Padilla F., and Benjamin S.P. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae, and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum novitates 3577: 1-21. [Abstract]
Huang D.-y. and Lin Q.-b. 2007. A new soldier fly (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, northeast China. Cretaceous Research 28 (2): 317-321. [Abstract]
Huang D.-y. and Nel A. 2007. A new Middle Jurassic "grylloblattodean" family from China (Insecta: Juraperlidae fam. n.). European Journal of Entomology 104 (4): 837-840. [Abstract]
Huang D.-y. and Nel A. 2007. Oldest 'libelluloid' dragonfly from the Middle Jurassic of China (Odonata: Anisoptera: Cavilabiata). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 246 (1): 63-68. [Abstract]
Huang D.-y., Ren D., Sinitshenkova N., and Shih C. 2007. New genus and species of Hexagenitidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Yixian Formation, China. Zootaxa 1629: 39-50. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Huang J.-d., Liu Y.-sh., Sinitshenkova N.D., and Ren D. 2007. A new fossil genus of Siphlonuridae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from the Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, Chinaa. Annales Zoologici 57 (2): 221-225. [PDF]
Huang J.-d., Ren D., and Sun J.-h. 2007. Progress in the study of Ephemeroptera (mayfly) fossils. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32 (4): 391-404. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Hunt T., Bergsten J., Levkanicova Z., Papadopoulou A., St John O., Wild R., Hammond P.M., Ahrens D., Balke M., Caterino M.S., Gómez-Zurita J., Ribera I., Barraclough T.G., Bocakova M., Bocak L., Vogler A.P. 2007. A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a superradiation. Science 318 (5858): 1913-1916. [Abstract] [PDF] [Comments by A.G. Kirejtshuk (in Russian)]

Jagt J.W.M., Zonova T.D., and Jagt-Yazykova E.A. 2007. A review of the brachylepadomorph cirripede genus Pycnolepas, including the first record of an Early Cretaceous species from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 1545: 33-47. [Abstract]
Jarzembowski E.A. 2007. IGCP 469 – Late Variscan terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 248. [HTML] [PDF]
Jarzembowski E.A. and Schneider J.W. 2007. The stratigraphical potential of blattodean insects from the late Carboniferous of southern Britain. Geological Magazine 144 (3): 449-456. [Abstract]
Jaschhof M. 2007. A neontologist's review of two recently published articles on inclusions of Lestremiinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Rovno amber. Paleontological Journal 41 (1): 103-106. [Abstract] [PDF in Russian]
Jepson J.E. and Penney D. 2007. Neuropteran (Insecta) palaeodiversity with predictions for the Cretaceous fauna of the Wealden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 248 (1-2): 109-118. [Abstract]
Judson M.L.I. 2007. First fossil record of the pseudoscorpion family Pseudochiridiidae (Arachnida, Chelonethi, Cheiridioidea) from Dominican amber. Zootaxa 1393: 45-51. [Abstract]

Kirejtshuk A.G. and Poinar G., Jr. 2007. Species of two paleoendemic sap beetle genera of the tribe Nitidulini (Nitidulidae: Coleoptera) from the Baltic and Dominican amber. Paleontological Journal 41 (6): 629-641. [Abstract]
Kirk-Spriggs A.H. 2007. A reappraisal of the type fossil of Curtonotum †gigas Théobald, 1937 (Diptera: Curtonotidae), a compression fossil of Early Oligocene age from Provence, France. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 6: 13–20. [PDF]
Kolyada V.A. and Mostovski M.B. 2007. Revision of Proctotrupidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) described by Ch. T. Brues from Baltic amber. Zootaxa 1661: 29-38. (In English, with Russian abstract) [Abstract] [PDF]
Kotov A.A. 2007. Jurassic Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) with a description of an extinct Mesozoic order. Journal of Natural History 41 (1-4): 13-37. [Abstract] [PDF]
Krassilov V.A. 2007. Mines and galls on fossil leaves from the Late Cretaceous of southern Negev, Israel. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 13-22. [Abstract] [PDF]
Krassilov V.A., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Afonin S.A. 2007. Pollen eaters and pollen morphology: co-evolution through the Permian and Mesozoic. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 3-11. [Abstract] [PDF]
Krassilov V., Silantieva N., Hellmund M., and Hellmund W. 2007. Insect egg sets on angiosperm leaves from the Lower Cretaceous of Negev, Israel. Cretaceous Research 28 (5): 803-811. [Abstract]
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Krzemiński W. 2007. A revision of Eocene Bittacidae (Mecoptera) from Baltic amber, with the description of a new species. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 153-162. [Abstract] [PDF]
Krzemiński W. and Arillo A. 2007. Alavia neli n. gen. and n. sp. – the first Limoniidae (Diptera) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Álava (Spain). Alavesia 1: 11-13. [PDF]

Labandeira C.C. 2007. The origin of herbivory on land: Initial patterns of plant tissue consumption by arthropods. Insect Science 14 (4): 259-275. [Abstract]
Labandeira C.C. and Allen E.G. 2007. Minimal insect herbivory for the Lower Permian Coprolite Bone Bed site of north-central Texas, USA, and comparison to other Late Paleozoic floras. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 247 (3-4): 197-219. [Abstract]
Labandeira C.C., Kvaček J., and Mostovski M.M. 2007. Pollination drops, pollen, and insect pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms. Taxon 56 (3): 663-695. [Abstract] [PDF]
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Li G., Shen Y.-b., and Batten D.J. 2007. Yanjiestheria, Yanshania and the development of the Eosestheria conchostracan fauna of the Jehol Biota in China. Cretaceous Research 28 (2): 225-234. [Abstract]
Li L.-m., Ren D., and Meng X.-m. 2007. New fossil prophalangopsids from China (Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae, Aboilinae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica 32 (1): 174-181. (in Chinese, with English summary) [Abstract in Chinese] [PDF]
Li L.-m., Ren D., and Wang Z.-h. 2007. New prophalangopsids from Late Mesozoic of China (Orthoptera, Prophalangopsidae, Aboilinae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica 32 (2): 412-422. [request PDF]
Li Z., Hong Y.-c., and Yang D. 2007. A new Middle Triassic genus and species of Mylacridae (Blattodea) from China. Zootaxa 1660: 53-59. [Abstract]
Lin Q.-b., Huang D.-y., and Nel A. 2007. A new family of Cavilabiata from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China (Odonata: Anisoptera). Zootaxa 1469: 59-64. [Abstract] [PDF]
Liu M., Lu W., and Ren D. 2007. A new fossil mordellid (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Mordellidae) from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning Province, China. Zootaxa 1415: 49-56. [Abstract] [PDF]
Liu M. and Ren D. 2007. New fossil eccoptarthrids (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 50 (5): 641-648. [PDF]
Liu Y., Ren D., Sinitshenkova N.D., and Shih Ch.-k. 2007. The oldest known record of Taeniopterygidae in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China (Insecta: Plecoptera). Zootaxa 1521: 1-8. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Liu Y., Sinitshenkova N.D., and Ren D. 2007. A new genus and species of stonefly (Insecta: Plecoptera) from the Yixian Formation, Liaoning Province, China. Cretaceous Research 28 (2): 322-326. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Liu Z., Engel M.S., and Grimaldi D.A. 2007. Phylogeny and geological history of the cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea). American Museum Novitates 3583: 1-48. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Lockley M. 2007. A tale of two ichnologies: The different goals and potentials of invertebrate and vertebrate (tetrapod) ichnotaxonomy and how they relate to ichnofacies analysis. Ichnos 14 (1): 39-57. [Abstract] [PDF]

Makarkin V.N. and Menon F. 2007. First record of fossil ‘rapismatid-like’ Ithonidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Cretaceous Research 28 (5): 743-753. [Abstract] [PDF]
Mancuso A.C., Gallego O.F., and Martins-Neto R.G. 2007. The Triassic insect fauna from the Los Rastros Formation (Bermejo Basin), La Rioja Province (Argentina): its context, taphonomy and paleobiology. Ameghiniana 44 (2): 337-348. [PDF]
Martill D.M. 2007. The age of the Cretaceous Santana Formation fossil Konservat Lagerstätte of north-east Brazil: a historical review and an appraisal of the biochronostratigraphic utility of its palaeobiota. Cretaceous Research 28 (6): 895-920. [Abstract]
Martill D.M., Bechly G., and Loveridge R.F., eds. 2007. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 624 pp. [Abstract] [Table of contents] [Excerpt]
Martill D.M. and Heads S.W. 2007. Out of Eden? Araripe GeoPark is a palaeontological paradise of international significance, but is the scientific community being excluded? Geoscientist 17 (11): 20-24.
Martins-Neto R.G. 2007. New Orthoptera Stenopelmatoidea and Hagloidea (Ensifera) from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Northeast Brazil) with description of new taxa. Gaea 3 (1): 3-8. [PDF]
Martins-Neto R.G., Carneiro A., and Prezoto F. 2007. A new species of wasp (Symphyta, Sepulcidae) from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Northeast Brazil). Journal of the Entomological Research Society 9 (1): 1-6. [PDF]
Martins-Neto R.G., Gallego O.F., Brauckmann C., and Cruz J.L. 2007. A review of the South American Palaeozoic entomofauna Part I: the Ischnoneuroidea and Cacurgoidea, with description of new taxa. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 87-101. [Abstract] [PDF]
Martins-Neto R.G., Gallego O.F., and Zavattieri A.M. 2007. A new Triassic insect fauna from Cerro Bayo, Potrerillos (Mendoza Province, Argentina) with descriptions of new taxa (Insecta: Blattoptera and Coleoptera). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 31 (2): 199-213. [Abstract]
Martins-Neto R.G. and Szwedo J. 2007. Taxonomic changes in fossil Cixiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). I – Cretofennahia nom. nov. pro Fennahia Martins-Neto. Alavesia 1: 117. [PDF]
Masner L., Johnson N.F., and Polaszek A.D. 2007. Redescription of Archaeoscelio Brues and description of three new genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera): a challenge to the definition of the family. American Museum Novitates 3550: 1-24. [Abstract] [request PDF]
Mayhew P.J. 2007. Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies. Biological Reviews 82 (3): 425-454. [Abstract] [PDF]
McKay I.J. 2007. A new genus of the cockroach family Umenocoleidea from Cretaceous deposits at Orapa, Botswana. Palaeontologia Africana 42: 127.
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Michez D., Nel A., Menier J.-J., and Rasmont P. 2007. The oldest fossil of a melittid bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from the early Eocene of Oise (France). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (4): 701-709. [Abstract] [PDF]
Mitchell A.A. 2007. EDNA The world-wide fossil insect catalogue. African Invertebrates 48 (1): 249. [HTML] [PDF]
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Nel A., Huang D.-y., and Lin Q.-b. 2007. A new genus of isophlebioid damsel-dragonflies (Odonata: Isophlebioptera: Campterophlebiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Zootaxa 1642: 13–22. [Abstract] [PDF]
Nel A., Roques P., Nel P., Prokop J., and Steyer J.S. 2007. The earliest holometabolous insect from the Carboniferous: a “crucial” innovation with delayed success (Insecta Protomeropina Protomeropidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 43 (3): 349-355. [Abstract] [PDF]
Nel A. and Waller A. 2007. The first fossil Compsocidae from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Psocoptera, Troctomorpha). Cretaceous Research 28 (6): 1039-1041. [Abstract]
Nel P., Azar D., and Nel A. 2007. A new ‘primitive’ family of thrips from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Insecta, Thysanoptera). Cretaceous Resea