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Bellinympha
This unusual lacewing genus from the famous Jurassic locality of Daohugou contains two species, both of which have wings decorated by transverse, or pinnate, bars strikingly similar to the pinnate leaves of cycad (Cycadales) and extinct Bennettitales plants. Leaf mimicry is a common anti-predatory adaptation in living animals; Bellinympha may have been preyed upon by feathered dinosaurs such as Epidexipteryx or the early gliding mammal Volaticotherium, both of which were also found at Daohugou.
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It was assigned to Saucrosmylinae by Wang et al. (2010); and to Saucrosmylidae by Fang et al. (2015), Winterton et al. (2019).
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Bellinympha Wang et al. p. 16212 |
| 2015 | Bellinympha Fang et al. p. 3 |
| 2019 | Bellinympha Winterton et al. p. 87 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Callovian - Oxfordian | China (Nei Mongol) | B. filicifolia, B. dancei (113366) |