Abstract
Two new species of myrmeleontoid neuropterans are described from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of the Jinju formation (South Korea), Araripenymphes koreicus sp.nov. (Cratosmylidae) and Araripeneura asiatica sp.nov. (Araripeneuridae). This is the first Mesozoic record of Myrmeleontoidea from the Korean Peninsula. Genera Araripeneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989 and Araripenymphes Menon et al., 2005 have long been known only from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Recently Araripenymphes was discovered in middle Cretaceous Burmese amber, which was considered as evidence for its Gondwanan origin. However, new records of these genera from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea indicate that their distribution was in fact not Gondwanan, but cross-continental, contrary to initial suggestions.
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