This list of fossil arthropods described in 2010 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that have been described during the year 2010. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.
| Newly named Dinocaridids | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Amplectobelua stephenensis[1] | Sp nov | Valid | Daley & Budd | Middle Cambrian | Burgess Shale Formation | A radiodont | ||
| Caryosyntrips | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Daley & Budd | Middle Cambrian | Burgess Shale Formation | A radiodont, type species C. serratus | ||
| Tamisiocaris[2] [3] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Daley & Peel | Cambrian | Buen Formation Kinzers Formation[4] | A suspension-feeding radiodont. The type species is T. borealis | ||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aciculopoda[5] | Fam, gen et Sp nov | Valid | Feldmann & Schweitzer | Devonian | Oldest known shrimp. | |||
| Chenops[6] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Hegna & Ren | Barremian | Yixian Formation | A notostracan | ||
| Jeholops | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Hegna & Ren | Barremian | Yixian Formation | A notostracan | ||
| Nasunaris[7] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, & Sutton | Silurian | An ostracod | |||
| Pseudotealliocaris holthuisi[8] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Irham, Schram & Vonk | Mississippian | Leitchfield Formation | Moved to the genus Tealliocaris in 2013[9] | ||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bohemiatupus elegans[16] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Prokop & Nel | Westphalian | Kladno Formation | |||
| Camptoneurites soyanensis[17] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui | Kazanian | Soyana locality | A Notopteran | ||
| Cantabroraphidia[18] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Pérez-de la Fuente, Nel, Peñalver, & Delclòs | Albian | Las Peñosas Formation, Cave of El Soplao | A mesoraphidiid snakefly; The type species is C. marcanoi | ||
| Cascopleciidae[19] | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Poinar | Early Cretaceous | Burmese amber | A flower-visiting Bibionomorpha fly. Type genus Cascoplecia, type species C. insolitis | ||
| Crepidodera decolorata[20] | sp nov | Valid | Nadein & Perkovsky | Late Eocene | Rovno amber | A flea beetle | ||
| Deinodryinus? aptianus[21] | sp nov | Valid | Olmi, Rasnitsyn, & Guglielmino | Aptian | Khurilt rock unit | A dryinid wasp. | ||
| Ektatotricha[22] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi | Middle Cretaceous | Burmese amber | |||
| Electroatopos | gen et sp nov | Valid | Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi | Middle Cretaceous | Burmese amber | |||
| Epiaeschna pseudoheros[23] | Sp nov | valid | Nel & Petrulevicius | Chattian | Les Figons | An Aeshnid dragonfly | ||
| Holcorpa dillhoffi[24] | sp nov | valid | Archibald | Ypresian | McAbee fossil site | A holcorpid scorpionfly | ||
| Iberoevania[25] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs | Early Cretaceous | Amber | An evaniid | ||
| Jerseyempheria[26] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius | Cretaceous | New Jersey amber | A empheriid psocodean | ||
| Kachinus | gen et sp nov | Valid | Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi | Middle Cretaceous | Burmese amber | |||
| Lichnomesopsyche[27] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Ren, Labandeira, & Shih | Middle Jurassic | Jiulongshan Formation | A mesopsychid mecopteran | ||
| Limnoxenus olenus[28] | Sp nov | Valid | Fikacek, Prokop, & Nel | Chattian | Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation | A water scavenger beetle | ||
| Manobiomorpha | gen et sp nov | Valid | Nadein & Perkovsky | Late Eocene | Rovno amber | A flea beetle | ||
| Mendozachorista | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke, Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara | Late Triassic | Llantenes Formation | The species is M. volkheimeri | ||
| Mesokristensenia | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Huang, Nel, & Minet | Middle Jurassic | Daohugou Beds | |||
| Microcostaphron | gen et sp nov | Valid | Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs | Early Cretaceous | Álava amber | The species is M. parvus | ||
| Nylanderia pygmaea[29] | Comb nov | Valid | (Mayr) | Middle Eocene | European amber | A formicine ant, new combination for Paratrechina pygmaea | ||
| Paleophaedon | gen et sp nov | Valid | Nadein & Perkovsky | Late Eocene | Rovno amber | A chrysomeline leaf beetle | ||
| Parazila | gen et sp nov | Synonymized | Vršanský, Ren, & Shih | Late Jurassic | A fly | |||
| Psyllototus | gen et sp nov | Valid | Nadein & Perkovsky | Late Eocene | Rovno amber | A flea beetle | ||
| Radiophron | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs | Early Cretaceous | Álava amber | The species is R. ibericus | ||
| Raptorapax[30] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel | Early Cretaceous | Amber | A rhachiberothid lacewing | ||
| Sociala | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Vršanský | Albian | Amber | A cockroach | ||
| Sapho legrandi | Sp nov | valid | Nel & Petrulevicius | Chattian | Les Figons | A Calopterygid damselfly | ||
| Tyulkinia | gen et sp nov | Valid | Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui | Kungurian | Tyulkino locality | A Notopteran | ||
| Vitimopsyche kozlovi | gen et sp nov | Valid | Ren, Labandeira, & Shih | Early Cretaceous | Jehol Biota | A mesopsychid mecopteran | ||
| Vosila | fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Vršanský, Ren, & Shih | Middle Jurassic | A fly | |||
| Weiwoboa | Fam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński | Lower Eocene | ||||