Dany Azar

Dany Azar (fl. 1997–), 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: danyazar@ul.edu.lb

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

  • 37 taxon names authored by Dany Azar

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1997

  • Azar, D. 1997. Lebanese Amber. Meganeura 1: 26–27.
  • Azar, D. 1997. A new method for extracting vegetal and insect fossils from the Lebanese amber. Palaeontology 40(4): 1027–1029.

1998

  • Azar, D. 1998. Lebanese Lower Cretaceous amber. Meganeura 2: 18–20.

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2020

  • Maksoud, S., Taleb, K., Gèze, R., Azar, D. (2020). New early Barremian amber outcrops from Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 3(6): 569-573.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A. (2020). New Cecidomyiidae from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera). Palaeoentomology 3(5): 525-540. October 2020.
  • Azar, D., Maksoud, S. (2020). New psychodid flies from the Upper Cretaceous Yantardakh amber and Eocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae). Palaeoentomology 3(5): 500-512. October 2020.
  • Maksoud, S., Ziadé, K., Gèze, R., Azar, D. (2020). New early Barremian amber outcrops from Central Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 3(4): 415-422. August 2020.
  • Azar, D., Maksoud, S., Huang, D. (2020). A new dipteromantispid from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Neuroptera: Dipteromantispidae). Palaeoentomology 3(4): 407-414. August 2020.
  • Azar, D., Maksoud, S. (2020). A new species of Protopsychoda Azar et al., 1999 from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae). Palaeoentomology 3(4): 352-356. August 2020.
  • El-Hossny, T., Maksoud, S., Azar, D., Abi-Saad, P., Cavin, L. (2020). Spathiurus dorsalis Davis, 1887, from the Upper Cretaceous of Haqel, Lebanon, and the evolutionary history of Ionoscopiformes. Cretaceous Research 116: 104619. 21 August 2020.
  • Haug, J. W. F., et al. (including Azar, D.) (2020). Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil based scientific data”: the importance of private collections. Paläontologische Zeitschrift August 2020.
  • Haug, T., et al. (including Azar, D.) (2020). Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil based scientific data”: Myanmar amber. Paläontologische Zeitschrift August 2020.
  • Szwedo, J., Wang, B., Soszyńska-Maj, A., Azar, D., Ross, A. (2020). International Palaeoentomological Society statement. Palaeoentomology 3(3): 221-222.
  • Azar, D., Heiss, E., Huang, D. (2020). Review of the flat bug genus Cretopiesma Grimaldi & Engel, 2008 from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and description of three new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae: Archearadinae). Palaeoentomology 3(1): 6-31.
  • Maksoud, S., Azar, D. (2020). Lebanese amber: latest updates. Palaeoentomology 3(2): 125-155. .
  • Raad, R., Azar, D., Perotti, M. A. (2020). First report of the ticks Haemaphysalis punctata Canestrini et Fanzago, 1878, Haemaphysalis parva (Neumann, 1897) and Dermacentor marginatus (Sulzer, 1776) (Acari, Amblyommidae) from humans in Lebanon. .Parasitologica 65: 541-545. Jan. 2020.
  • Garrouste, R., Schubnel, T., Huang, D., Azar, D., Cai, C., Nel, A. (2020). Sexual conflict during Mesozoic: The first Cretaceous damsel bug in Burmese amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae). Cretaceous Research 108: 104344.
  • Fu, Y., Azar, D., Huang, D. (2020). A new species of the extinct family Minlagerrontidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 107: 104270.
  • Hakim, A., Azar, D., Huang, D. (2020). A unique manicapsocid (Psocodea: Amphientometae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 107: 104278.
  • Maksoud, S., Granier, B., Gèze, R., Alméras, Y., Toland, C., Azar, D. (2020). The Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in Lebanon. Revision of the Salima Formation. Cretaceous Research 107: 104268.

2021

  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Szwedo, J., Drohojowska, J. & Huang, D. 2021. Paraprotopsyllidiidae fam. nov., a new thrips-like protopsyllidioid family from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera; Sternorrhyncha). Cretaceous Research 120. Reference page. 
  • Maksoud, S., Maalouf, M., Maalouf, R., Azar, D., 2021. Baskinta and Bqaatouta: Two new early Barremian fossiliferous amber outcrops from Central Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 4(4): 367-373.
  • Maksoud, S., Granier, B., Huang, D.-Y. H., Azar, D., 2021. Edgellia libanica n. organo-gen., n. organo-sp., a new Dasycladalean organ from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14: 1337.
  • Maksoud, S., Azar, D., 2021. Hjoula: A remarkable mid-Cenomanian Lebanese fossil fish Lagerstätte now also promising for fossil insects. Palaeoentomology 4(3): 223-227.
  • Klimov, B., Vorontsov, D., Azar, D., Sidorchuk, E. A., Braig, H. R., Khaustov, A. A., Tolstikov, A. V., 2021. A Transitional Fossil Mite (Astigmata: Levantoglyphidae fam. n.) from the Early Cretaceous Suggests Gradual Evolution of Phoresy-Related Metamorphosis. Scientific Reports 11: 15113. 23 July 2021.
  • Maksoud, S., Zaidan, O. T., Azar, D., 2021. Kfar Selouan: A new early Barremian fossiliferous amber outcrop from Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 4(3): 257-265.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Huang, D. -Y., 2021. A new species of Cormopsocidae from Burmese amber (Psocodea; Trogiomorpha). Palaeoentomology 4(3): 213-217.
  • Wang, B., Shi, G., Xu, C., Spicer, R. A., Perrichot, V., Schmidt, A. R., Feldberg, K., Heinrichs, J., Chény, C., Pang, H., Liu, X., Gao, T., Wang, Z., Ślipiński, A., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Heads, S. W., Thomas, J., Sadowski, E. -M., Szwedo, J., Azar, D., Nel, A., Liu, L., Chen, J., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Q. (2nd author), Luo, C., Yu, T., Zheng, D., Zhang, H., Engel, M.S., 2021. The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia. Science Advance 7(18): eabg0625.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Fu, Y. -Z., Cai, C. -Y., Huang, D. -Y., 2021. A new cormopsocid from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Cormopsocidae). Palaeoentomology 4(2): 178-185.
  • Hakim, M., Huang, D. -Y., Azar, D., 2021. New fossil psocids from Cretaceous Siberian ambers (Psocodea: Trogiomorpha: Atropetae). Palaeoentomology 4(2): 186-198.
  • Fu, Y. -Z., Azar, D., Huang, D. -Y.,2021. The first Dysmorphoptilidae from the Middle Triassic of China (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha). Historical Biology. 3506-3512. 4 Mar 2021.
  • Charbonnier, C., Audo, D., Garassino, A., Simpson, M., Gèze, R., Azar, D., 2021. A new species of mecochirid lobster, Meyeria libanotica (Decapoda, Glypheoidea), from the Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Lebanon. Annales de Paléontologie 107(1): 102470.
  • Maksoud, S., Taleb, K., Azar, D., 2021. New early Barremian fossiliferous amber outcrop from North Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 4(1): 23-26.
  • El-Hajj, L., Baudin, F., Gèze, R., Cavin, L., Dejax, J., Garcia, G., Horn, D. J., Maksoud, S., Otero, O., Azar, D., 2021. Dysodiles from the lower Barremian of Lebanon: Insights on the fossil assemblages and the depositional environment reconstruction. Cretaceous Research 120: 10432. April.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Szwedo, J., Drohojowska, J., Huang, D. -Y., 2021. Paraprotopsyllidiidae fam. nov., a new thrips-like protopsyllidioid family from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera; Sternorrhyncha). Cretaceous Research 120: 104726.
  • El-Hajj, L., Horne, D. J., Baudin, F., Gèze, R., Azar, D., 2021.The first non‐marine ostracod fauna from the Lower Barremian dysodiles of Lebanon Lethaia 54: 1. 127-139.

2022

  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Huang, D.-Y., 2022. A new species of Protopsyllidioidea from Cretaceous amber. Palaeoentomology 5: 6. 623-630.
  • Azar, D., Pielowska-Ceranowska, A., Szwedo, J., 2022. First record and two new species of the genus Trichomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Lower Miocene Dominican amber. Palaeoentomology 5: 6. 579-598.
  • Azar, D., Szwedo, J., Maalouf, M., Maalouf, R., Maksoud, S., 2022. Libanonemopalpus grimaldii, a new genus and species of Bruchomyiinae from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae). Palaeoentomology 5: 6. 569-578.
  • Azar, D., Evenhuis, N. L., Labandeira, C. C., Peñlavers, E., Penney, D., Rasnitsyn, A. P., Ross, A. J., Solórzano Kraemer, M. M., Szadziewski, R., Szwedo, J., 2022. David Grimaldi—appreciations. Palaeoentomology 5: 6. 514-516.
  • Maksoud, S., Granier, B., Azar, D., 2022. Palaeoentomological (fossil insects) outcrops in Lebanon. Carnets de Géologie 22: 16. 699-743.
  • Maksoud, S., Gèze, R., Azar, D., 2022. Ain Zhalta: A new early Barremian fossiliferous amber outcrops from central Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 5: 4. 400-404.
  • Azar, D., Maalouf, M., Maksoud, S., 2022. Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5: 4. 340-346.
  • Azar, D., Maksoud, S., 2022. Paleopsychoda jarzembowskii, a new Lower Cretaceous species of moth flies from Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae). Palaeoentomology 5: 3. 262-268.
  • Azar, D., Maalouf, R., Nel, A., 2022. An enigmatic Tettigoniidea from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Bqaatouta, Lebanon (Orthoptera, Ensifera). Palaeoentomology 5: 3. 222-225.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., 2022. Debris-carrying psocodean nymph from Lebanese amber. Palaeoentomology 5: 3. 233-239.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A., 2022. The youngest and first Lebanese representative of the family Saucrosmylidae (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Cenomanian. Palaeoentomology 5: 2. 155-160.
  • Pielowska-Ceranowska, A., Azar, D., Szwedo, J., 2022. Redescription of Minyohelea nexuosa (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) based on a new specimen from Lebanese amber. Palaeoentomology 5: 2. 137-141.
  • Rasnitsyn, A. P., Maalouf, M., Maalouf, R., Azar, D., 2022. New Serphitidae and Gallorommatidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Microprocta) in the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Palaeoentomology 5: 2. 120-136.
  • Maksoud, S., Azar, D., 2022. A new early Barremian amber outcrop from Mount Sannine (Central Lebanon). Palaeoentomology 5: 1. 71-75.

2023

  • Ni, Z.-J., Song, X.-B., Azar, D., Wang, Z.-X., Cai, C.-Y., Xuang, Q., Maksoud, S., Lian, X.-N., Huang, D., 2023. Discovery of Late Cretaceous amber from Guangzhou, South China. Palaeoentomology 6: 4. 329-332.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Huang, D.-Y., 2023. First record of fossil psocodeans in copula from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 5396: 1. 74-93.
  • Azar, D., Huang, D., 2023. Palaeoparasycorax globosus Stebner et al., 2015 from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar: Mating pair description. Zootaxa 5396: 1. 94–104.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A., 2023. The first Early Cretaceous representative of the fly family Tipulidae from the lower Barremian dysodiles of Lebanon (Diptera). Zootaxa 5396: 1. 58–63.
  • Maksoud, S., Azar, D., 2023. Lebanese amber: A fantastic journey into the time of dinosaurs. Journal of Gems & Gemmology 25: 4. 136-145.
  • Tihelka, E., Jarzembowski, E. A., Azar, D., Huang, D.-Y., Cai, C.-Y., 2023. An unusual artematopodid beetle from Early Cretaceous Wealden amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Artematopodidae). Palaeoentomology 6: 5. 455–458.
  • Pielowska-Ceranowska, A., Azar, D., Szwedo, J., 2023. A new genus and species of Leptoconopinae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Lower Cretaceous Baskinta amber outcrop in Lebanon. European Journal of Taxonomy 908: 27–38.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A., Huang, D., Engel, M.S., 2023. The earliest fossil mosquito. Current Biology 33: 5240–5246.
  • UImer, J. M., Janšta, P., Azar, D., Krogmann, L., 2023. At the dawn of megadiversity – Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 879–924.
  • Szwedo, J., Cai, C.-Y., Huang, D.-Y., Evenhuis, N. L., Azar, D., 2023. Updating manuscript types and formats for Palaeoentomology. Palaeoentomology 6: 4. 321-324.
  • Azar, D., Tabakian, H., Maalouf, M., 2023. New record of Libanochlites neocomicus Brundin, 1976 from the lower Barremian amber outcrop of Bqaatouta, Lebanon. Palaeoentomology 6: 4. 325-328.
  • Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Barrón, E., Peris, D., Grimaldi, D.A., Holz, M., Labandeira, C. C., Saupe, E. E., Scotese, C. R., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Álvarez-Parra, S., Arillo, A., Azar, D., Cadena, E. A., Corso, J. Dal, Kvaček, J., Monleón-Getino, A., Nel, A., Peyrot, D., Bueno-Cebollada, C. A., Gallardo, A., González-Fernández, B., Goula, M., Jaramillo, C., Kania-Kłosok, I., López-Del Valle, R., Lozano, R. P., Meléndez, N., Menor-Salván, C., Peña-Kairath, C., Perrichot, V., Rodrigo, A., Sánchez-García, A., Santer, M., Sarto i Monteys, V., Uhl, D., Viejo, J. L., Pérez-de la Fuente, R., 2023. Amber and the Cretaceous Resinous Interval. Earth-Science Reviews 243: 104486.
  • Hakim, M., Azar, D., Cai, C., Gao, J., Huang, D., 2023. Paraprotopsyllidium, a protopsyllidioid genus from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, now discovered in the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) Shouchang Formation, Zhejiang Province, East China. Cretaceous Research 150: 105608.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A., 2023. Libanogomphidae, a new extraordinary dragonfly family from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon (Odonata, Anisoptera). Cretaceous Research 148: 1055

2024

2025

Book

2018

  • Maksoud, S., Azar, D., 2018. متحجرات لبنان؛ ذاكرة الزمان. Arabic version of: "Les fossiles du Liban - Mémoire du Temps" by M. Gayet, P. Abi Saad & O. Gaudant. Heritage Lebanese Center - Lebanese American University, 183 pp. ISBN: 978-9953-461-39-7.

2013

  • Azar, D., Engel, M.S., Jarzembowsky, E., Krogmann, L., Nel, A., Santiago-Blay, J., 2013. Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowsky, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-210707-7.

2010

  • Nel, A., Azar, D., Petrulevičius, J.F. 2010. Fossil Insects. Edited by: A. Nel, D. Azar & J.F. Petrulevičius. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (Nouvelle série) 46: 1-2. ISBN: 2-912703-12-3.

Book chapters

2015

  • Azar, D., Granier, B., Maksoud, S., 2015. Latest News on the age of the fossiliferous Early Cretaceous amber of Lebanon. In: Amber news review - Przegląd aktualności bursztynowych 2014/2015. 65-68. World Amber Council. Gdańsk - Poland: World Amber Council. ISBN: 978-83-938097-0-8.

2013

  • Azar, D., Nel, A., Perkovsky, E., 2013. A new Sycorax species from Eocene Ukranian Rovno Amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Sycoracinae). In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 27-46. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7 (Note: ISBN for the entire proceedings, not just this paper).
  • Azar, D., Nohra, Y., Iskandar, D., Gèze, R., 2013. Fanar, a "dream" Lebanese Lower Cretaceous amber outcrop, dissipated... In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 176-186. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Szwedo, J., Azar, D., Nohra, Y., 2013. First record of Perforissidae from the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea). In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 145-163. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Krzemiński, W., Azar, D., Skibińska, K., 2013. Nannotanyderus ansorgi sp. n., the first member of the family Tanyderidae from Lebanese amber (Lower Cretaceous). In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 131-143. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Azar, D., Nel, A., 2013. A new beaded lacewing from a new Lower Cretaceous amber outcrop in Lebanon (Neuroptera: Berothidae). In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 111-130. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Choufani, J., Perrichot, V., Girard, V., Garrouste, R., Azar, D., Nel, A., 2013. Two new biting midges of the modern type from Santonian amber of France. In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 73-95. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Coty, D., Salamé, Y., Nel, A., Azar, D., 2013. A new psychodid fly from Mexican amber (Diptera; Psychodidae). In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 13-25. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Azar, D., Engel, M. S., Jarzembowski, E., Krogmann, L., Nel, A., Santiago-Blay, J., 2013. Introduction - Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. In: Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet. Edited by: D. Azar, M. S. Engel, E. Jarzembowski, L. Krogmann, A. Nel, J. Santiago-Blay. 1-10. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-21070-7.
  • Azar, D., Gèze, R., Acra, F. 2010. Chapter 14: Lebanese amber. In: Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. Edited by: David Penney. 271-298. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester. ISBN: 978-0-9558636-4-6.

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