13 July 2023

Dr. hab. Katarzyna Kopeć

Main research interests

Fossil Insects belonging to the Mecopter order and modern and fossil Diptera.

Current research tasks

  • Trichoneura from Burmese amber and joint phylogenetic relations of representatives of the genus from younger geological epochs
  • Upper Jurassic Limoniidae (Diptera) of Eurasia.
  • Variety of fauna Limoniidae (Diptera) in Burmese amber.
  • P[endif]comparison of the fauna of Dipter, Nematocer from selected Eocene positions.
  • Archizelmeridae, an extinct family of primitive Dipter flies.

Publication list

1.

Kopeć K. , Syratt M., Krzemiński W. , Nel A., Kania-Kłosok I., Soszyńska A.

2025

First evidence of Limoniidae (Diptera: Nematocera) in French amber from Oise.

Scientific Reports, 15: 14472.

1.

Kopeć K.

2024

Specyfika digitalizacji materiału paleontologicznego.

Publisher: Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS. p. 178. : ISBN 978-83-88147-29-6

[In:] Ivan D., Warchałowski M. (ed.) Good practices in digitization of zoological collections. Selected issues.

2.

Kopeć K. , Warchałowski M., Iwan D.

2024

Placówki muzealne i zbiory przyrodnicze w Polsce, stan obecny, wyzwania na przyszłość.

Publishing house: Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS. Page 178. : ISBN 978-83-88147-29-6

[In:] [In:] Ivan D., Warchałowski M. (ed.) Good practice in digitizing zoological collections. Selected issues.

1.

Kirichenko-Babko M., Perkovsky E.E., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2024

Two new species of the genus Lebia Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiina) from European Eocene ambers.

Annales zoologists, 74(4): 627-640.

2.

Krzemińska , E., Soszyńska, A., Kania-Kłosok, I., Skibińska K. , Kopeć K. , van de Kamp T., Zhang Q., Krzemiński W.

2024

First fossil mountain midges (Diptera, Deuterophlebiidae) and their evolutionary and ecological implication.

Scientific Report, 14: 24864.

3.

Krzemiński W. , Kania-Kłosok I., Arillo A., Kopeć K. , Santos D., Soszyńska A.

2024

The evolutionary history and biogeographical distribution of the Mesozoic relic genus Chilelimnophila (Diptera, Limoniidae).

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202: zlae119.

4.

Szpila K., Kamp T. van de, Sontag E., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Soszyńska A.

2024

The hidden world of fossil larvae: description and morphological insights of an immature scorpionfly (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) from the Baltic amber.

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX, 1–11.

1.

Jordan-Stasiło W., Kania-Kłosok I., Kopeć K. , Tuchowski M., Krzemiński W.

2023

Atytpical wing venation of some fossil and recent species of Rhabdomastix Skuse, 1890 (Diptera: Limoniidae), new data.

Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 73(4): 683-694.

2.

Kopeć K. , Kania-Kłosok I., Zhang Q., Krzemiński W.

2023

New fossil data reveal evolutionary pathways within the Genus Trichoneura Loew, 1850 (Diptera, Limoniidae).

Scientific Reports (2023) 13:16794 (OA) .

3.

Kopeć K. , Soszyńska A., Coram R.A., Krzemiński W.

2023

New species of the enigmatic gene Tipunia (Diptera, Tipulidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan and Lower Cretaceous of England.

Cretaceous Research 147 (2023) 105512.

4.

Skibińska K. , Zhang Q., Sevčík J., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2023

Description of three new species of Palaeoglaesum Wagner (Diptera:Psychodidae, Bruchomyiinae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar.

Cretaceous Research, 152.

5.

Skibińska K. , Zhang Q., Ševčík J., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2023

Description of new species of Palaeoglaesum Wagner (Diptera: Psychodidae, Bruchomyiinae) from Cretaceous Myanmar amber.

Cretaceous Research 152:105676.

1.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemińska E. , Pérez-de la Fuente R., Wang J-S., Szpila K., Skibińska K. , Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2022

Evolution of sexual conflict in scorpionflies.

eLife 11:e70508: 1-23.

1.

Kania-Kłosok I., Jordan-Stasiło W., Kopeć K. , Janiszewska K., Krzemiński W.

2021

The first stage of the evolution of Rhabdomastix (Diptera, Limoniidae) and the taxonomic implications of genus.

The European Zoological Journal, 88: 1, 1152-1169.

2.

Kania-Kłosok I., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Arillo A.

2021

The Oldest Evolutionary Lineage of Trichoneura Loew, 1850 (Diptera, Limoniidae) and the First Evidence of This Genus in Cretaceous Spanish Amber.

Insects, 2021, 12, 411.

3.

Kopeć K.

2021

Report from the 13th Dipterological Conference of the Polish Entomological Society "Biology and Systematics of Flyers" and from the XXXIX Convention of the Dipterological Section of the Polish Entomological Society Golden Potok, 3-5 September 2021.

Polish Entomological Society DIPTERON, Volume 37(05):418-422.

4.

Kopeć K.

2021

Znaczenie ochrony środowiska w działalności Muzeum Przyrodniczego.

Monthly of the Malopolska Centre for Teacher Improvement Hejnal Eduatory 12/208/2021, 15-16.

5.

Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Albrycht M.

2021

The oldest representatives of the Pilaria (Diptera, Limoniidae) genus from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, northern Myanmar.

Cretaceous Research 118, February 2021, 104671.

6.

Kopeć K. , Soszyńska‑Maj A., Kania‑Kłosok I., Coram R.A., Krzemiński W.

2021

Morphology of the oldest fossil subfamily of Limoniidae (Diptera, Architipulinae) in the light of exceptionally preserved Mesozoic material.

Scientific Reports, 11: 24137.

7.

Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Pełczyńska A., Soszyńska-Maj A.

2021

Polymera alexanderi sp. n. – a new species of Limoniidae (Diptera) from the Dominican amber.

Acta zoologica cracoviensia 64(2):169-172.

8.

Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Pełczyńska A., Soszyńska-Maj A

2021

Polymera alexanderin. sp., a new species of Limoniidae (Diptera) from Dominican amber.

Acta zoological cracoviensia, 64(2): 169-174.

9.

Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Soszyńska-Maj A.& Skibińska K.

2021

Aleksiana rasnitsyni gen. et sp. nov. (Diptera, Limoniidae) to honour Alexandr Rasnitsyn.

Palaeoentomology 004 (5): 436–440.

1.

Kopeć K. , Ansorge J., Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W.

2020

Revision of the genus Mesotipula Handlirsch, 1920 (Diptera, Limoniidae, Architipulinae) from the Lower Jurassic of Northeast Germany.

Historical Biology 32(4): 500-507.

2.

Kopeć K. , Skibińska K. , Soszyńska-Maj A.

2020

Two new Mesozoic species of Tipulomorpha (Diptera) from the Teete locality, Russia.

Palaeoentomology 003 (5): 466–472.

3.

Kopeć K. , Soszynska-Maj A., Lukashevich E., Krzemiński W.

2020

Revision of the Mesozoic genus Mesotipula Handlirsch (Limoniidae, Diptera) from Asia extending its evolutionary history up to the Cretaceous.

Cretaceous Research,114 (2020) :104504.

4.

Soszyńska –Maj A., Skibińska K. , Kopeć K.

2020

Wiesław Krzemiński—a man of a great passion for fossil flies.

Palaeoentomology 003 (5): 434–444.

1.

Kopeć K. , Perkovsky E., Skibińska K.

2019

A new species of a genus Cheilotrichia (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic and Ukrainian amber.

Annales Zoologici, 69(2): 423-426.

2.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Cao Y., Ren D.

2019

New Middle Jurassic fossils shed light on the relationship of recent Panorpoidea (Insecta, Mecoptera).

Historical Biology, 32(2):1-17.

1.

Kopeć K.

2018

A new species of Mesotipula (Limoniidae,Diptera) from the Lower Jurassic of England.

Annales Zoologici 68(1): 93-96.

2.

Krzemiński W. , Kania I., Kopeć K. and Okoń M.

2018

First Dicranomyia Stephens, 1829 (Diptera, Limoniidae) In Colombina copal.

Palaeoentomology, 001(1):065-079.

3.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Cao Y., Ren D.

2018

Large Jurssic scorpionflies belonging to a new subfamily of the family Orthophlebiidae (Mecoptera).

Annales Zoologici 68(1):85-92.

4.

Wojtoń M., Kania I., Kopeć K.

2018

Sylvicola Harris, 1780 (Diptera: Anisopodidae) in the Eocen resine.

Annales Zoologici, 68(4): 849-866.

1.

Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Skowron K.,Coram R.

2017

The genera Architipula Handlirsch, 1906 and Grimmenia Krzemiński and Zessin, 1990 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Lower Jurassic of England.

Palaeontologia Electronica 20.1.15A: 1-7.

2.

Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Skowron K., Coram R.

2017

The genera Architipula Handlirsch, 1906 and Grimmenia Krzeminski and Zessin, 1990 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Lower Jurassic of England.

Palaeontologia Electronica 20.1.15A: 1-7.

3.

Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Soszyńska-Maj A., Cao Y., Ren D.

2017

A new species of Orthobittacus (Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia (China).

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 157-162.

4.

Kopeć K. , Soszyńska-Maj A., Gehler A., Ansorge J., Krzemiński W.

2017

Mecoptera and Diptera from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) deposits of Wolfsburg – Grose Kley (Lower Saxony, Germany).

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 163-171.

5.

Krzemiński W. , Soszyńska-Maj A., Kopeć K. , Sukatsheva I.D.

2017

The oldest representative of the family Austropanorpidae (Mecoptera) from the Lower Jurassic of Siberia.

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 151-155.

6.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Kopeć K. , Müller P., Gröhn C., Krzemiński W.

2017

Cretaceous inclusions in Burmese amber throw a new light on the evolution of the Meropeidae (Mecoptera).

Cretaceous Research 79: 191-198.

7.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Coram R.A.

2017

Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae.

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107: 145-149.

8.

Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Kania I.

2017

New and little known species from the genus Leptotarsus Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Diptera: Tipulidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Northern Brazil.

Cretaceous Research 78:103-108.

1.

Kania I., Wojtoń M., Kopeć K. , Owsiak A., Jordan W.

2016

Helius anetae sp. nov. (Diptera: Limoniidae),a new representative of the gene from the Eocene Baltic amber. .

Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 281(1): 101- 109.

2.

Kopeć K. , Kania I., Krzemiński W.

2016

New and little known species of crane-flies from Dominican and Mexican amber (Diptera, Limoniidae – genera: Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina).

Palaeontologia Electronica 19.2.26A: 1-14.

3.

Kopeć K. , Kania I., Krzemiński W.

2016

New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhiona (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican amber and Mexican amber.

Palaeontologia Electronica, 19.2.26A: 1-14.

4.

Kopeć K. , Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W. , Coram R.A.

2016

A new hangingfly (Insecta, Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Purbeck Limenston Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and a review of Cretaceous Bittacidae.

Cretaceous Research 57: 122-130.

5.

Soszyńska-Maj A., Krzemiński W. , Kopeć K. , Coram R.

2016

Phylogenetic relationships within the relict family Eomeropidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) based on the oldest fossil from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Dorset, southern England.

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(12): 1025-1031.

1.

Gao J., Shih C., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Ren D.

2015

New species and revisions of Pediciidae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China and Russia.

Zootax 3963(2): 240-249.

2.

Gao J., Shih G., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W. , Ren D.

2015

New species and revision of Pediciidae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of northern China and Russia.

Zootax 3963(2): 240-240.

3.

Krzemiński W. , Soszyńska-Maj A, Bashkuev A.S., Kopeć K.

2015

Revision of the unique Early Cretaceous Mecoptera from Koonwarra (Australia) with description of a new genus and family.

Cretaceous Research 52: 501-506.

4.

Krzemiński W. , Soszyńska-Maj A., Bashkuew A.S., Kopeć K.

2015

Revision of the unique Cretaceous Early Mecoptera from Koonwarra (Australia) with description of a new genus and family.

Cretaceous Research 52: 501-506.

1.

Kania I., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2014

Pilaria sarawakiensis n. sp. (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Borneo (Malaysia, Sarawak).

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 57(1): 21-27.

2.

Kania I., Kopeć K. , Krzemiński W.

2014

Pilaria sarawakiensis n. sp. (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Borneo (Malaysia, Sarawak).

Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 57(1): 21-27.

1.

Kopeć K. , Kania I.

2013

A new species of Cheilotrichia Rossi, 1848 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Bitterfeld amber.

Annales Zoologici 63(4): 537-540.

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