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)

(List may be incomplete)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Petrulevičius, J.F., Martins-Neto, R.G., Azar, D., Makhoul, E. & Nel, A. 2012. Full description of Cordulagomphus primaerensis from Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous of Brazil) (Odonata: Aeshnoptera: Proterogomphidae). Zootaxa 3503: 55–60. Preview Reference page.

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.
Nel, P., Retana-Salazar, A.P., Azar, D., Nel, A. & Huang, D.-Y. 2014: Redefining the Thripida (Insecta: Paraneoptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12(7): 865–878. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2013.841781 Reference page.

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.

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.

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.

Shcherbakov, D.E. & Azar, D. 2019. A new subfamily of Trichoceridae (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Zootaxa 4563(2): 311–325. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.5 Reference page.