Plate 1:
Fossil insects in amber. A- Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Microphorites sp.,
female, specimen number MCH-1B (Mechmech, Ain El-Khyar). B- Blattaria:
Caloblattinidae: Rhipidoblatta ?, specimen number MCH-1D (Mechmech, Ain
El-Khyar). C- Diptera: Dolichopodidae:
female, Microphorites sp., male, specimen number MCH-1A (Mechmech, Ain
El-Khyar). D- Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae, specimen number MCH-1C
(Mechmech, Ain El-Khyar). E- Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae, female, specimen number DAB-13
(Nimrin, El-Dabsheh). F- Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae: Raptorapax terribilissima, specimen number
NBS-1A (Brissa). G- Hymenoptera, specimen number BKK-1A (Beqaa Kafra). H-
Hemiptera: Enicocephalidae: Enicocephalinus acragrimaldi, male, specimen
number HDJ-1A (Hadath El Joubbeh). I- Diptera: Psychodoidea: Xenopsychoda
harbi, female, holotype, specimen number T-1 (Tannourine). J- Diptera,
Ceratopogonidae, female specimen number MKD-1 (Mazraat Kfardibiane). Scale bars
in F = 1 mm, in all remaining figures = 0.5 mm.