Dany Azar

Dany Azar, Lebanese paleoentomologist.

• Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China
• Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Biology, Beirut, Lebanon.
• E-mail: azar@mnhn.fr

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 26 taxon names authored by Dany Azar

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

• Nel, A., Azar, D., Martínez-Delclòs, X. & Makhoul, E. 2004. A new Upper Cretaceous species of Chresmoda from Lebanon - a latest representative of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Polyneoptera inc. sed.): first record of homeotic mutations in the fossil record of insects. European Journal of Entomology 101(1): 145–151. PDF. Reference page. 

2008

• Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Azar, D. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2: 15–46. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2010

• Azar, D., Prokop, J. & Nel, A. 2010. The first damselfly from the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Odonata, Zygoptera, Lestomorpha). Alavesia 3: 73–79. Reference page. 

2011

• Azar, D. & Nel, A. 2011. The oldest psyllipsocid booklice, in lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha, Psocathropetae, Psyllipsocidae). ZooKeys 130: 153–165. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.130.1430 . Reference page. 
• Perrichot, V., Ortega-Blanco, J., McKellar, R.C., Delclòs, X., Azar, D., Nel, A., Tafforeau, P. & Engel, M.S. 2011. New and revised maimetshid wasps from Cretaceous ambers (Hymenoptera, Maimetshidae). ZooKeys 130: 421–453. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.130.1453 . Reference page. 

2013

• Nel, A., Roques, P., Nel, P., Prokin, A.A., Bourgoin, T., Prokop, J., Szwedo, J., Azar, D., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Wappler, T., Garrouste, R., Coty, D., Huang, D.-Y., Engel, M. & Kirejtshuk, A.G. 2013. The earliest-known holometabolous insects. Nature 503: 257–261. [14 p. Supplementary material.] DOI: 10.1038/nature12629 . Reference page. 

2014

• Azar, D., Mouawad, R. & Salamé, Y. 2014 (Online). A new genus of Trichomyiinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Upper Cretaceous amber of New Jersey. Cretaceous Research 52(B): 531–538. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.02.014 . Reference page. 
• Krzemiński, W., Kania, I. & Azar, D. 2014. The Early Cretaceous evidence of rapid evolution of the genus Helius Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Limoniidae, Diptera). Cretaceous Research 48: 96–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.12.001 Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Azar, D. & Huang, D.-Y. 2013 (Online) 2014 (Print). A new Middle Jurassic Chinese fossil clarifies the systematic composition of the Heterophlebioptera (Odonata: Trigonoptera). Alcheringa 38(1): 130–134. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2014.843385 Reference page. 

2016

• Garrouste, R., Azar, D. & Nel, A. 2016. The oldest accurate record of Scenopinidae in the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa 4093(3): 444–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.10.Reference page. 
• Huang, D.-Y., Bechly, G., Nel, P., Engel, M.S., Prokop, J., Azar, D., Cai, C.-Y., van de Kamp, T., Staniczek, A.H., Garrouste, R., Krogmann, L., dos Santos Rolo, T., Baumbach, T., Ohlhoff, R., Shmakov, A.S., Bourgoin, T. & Nel, A. 2016. New fossil insect order Permopsocida elucidates major radiation and evolution of suction feeding in hemimetabolous insects (Hexapoda: Acercaria). Scientific Reports 6: 23004. DOI: 10.1038/srep23004 . Reference page. 
• Kirejtshuk, A.G., Chetverikov, P.E., Azar, D. & Kirejtshuk, P.A. 2016. Ptismidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera, Staphyliniformia) from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Cretaceous Research 59: 201-213. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.027 . PDF. [Corrigendum: 61: 275. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.004 .] Reference page. 
• Myskowiak, J., Huang, D., Azar, D., Cai, C., Garrouste, R. & Nel, A. 2016. New lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Osmylidae, Nymphidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber and Crato Formation in Brazil. Cretaceous Research 59: 214–227. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.029 Reference page. 

2017

• Azar, D., Hakim, M., Huang, D., Cai, C. & Nel, A. 2017. New fossil booklice from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (Psocodea: Troctomorpha: Amphientometae: Manicapsocidae). Cretaceous Research 70: 8–14. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.013 Reference page. 

2018

• Shayya, S., Dégallier, N., Nel, A., Azar, D. & Lackner, T. 2018. Contribution to the knowledge of Saprinus Erichson, 1834 of forensic relevance from Lebanon (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 738: 117–152. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.738.21382. Reference page. 

References

Links

• Dany Azar. Academia.edu
• Dany Azar. Publicationslist.org