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Other Insect Trace Fossils in Paleosols: Cicadas, Chafers, Weevils, and Sphinx Moths

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Extant and fossil traces of cicadas, chafers, weevils and sphinx moths are reviewed. Cicadas have been recently recognized as producers of trace fossils in paleosols represented by feeding chambers: Feoichnus challa and Monesichnus ameghinoi. The former are simple pan or dish-shaped, upwardly concave, structures, whereas the latter are ovoid shaped chambers showing meniscate fillings. Both have as distinctive character the presence of a longitudinal groove representing the root to which the chamber was attached. Larvae of chafers and weevils are the producers of the ellipsoid chambers known as Rebuffoichnus casamiquelai, R. guanche and Fictovichnus gobiensis. Teisseirei barattinia is a chamber with depressed ellipsoidal section that has been known since 1939, but only recently it could be attributed to its producer: sphinx moths. The depressed shape and leg impressions are typical or both extant and fossil chambers. In addition, T. barattinia can be used as indicator of uppermost horizons in paleosols. Color plates of extant producers and their traces, type material, morphological details and representative cases of trace fossils are provided.

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(Florentino Ameghino, 1906, Las formaciones sedimentarias del Cretácico Superior y del Terciario de la Patagonia con un paralelismo entre sus faunas de mamíferos con las del antiguo continente)

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Genise, J.F. (2017). Other Insect Trace Fossils in Paleosols: Cicadas, Chafers, Weevils, and Sphinx Moths. In: Ichnoentomology. Topics in Geobiology, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28210-7_13

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