Question: Who was the author of the insect who is the only prehistoric species found in the West Indies ?

text: List of prehistoric insects
Miocene

Prehistoric insects are various groups of insects that lived before recorded history. Their study is the field of paleoentomology. Insects inhabited Earth since before the time of the dinosaurs. The earliest identifiable insect is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, estimated at 407 to 396 million years ago. Forms similar to many modern insects had already evolved before the dawning of the dinosaur and lived alongside them and beyond up to the present day. Like today, prehistoric insects were an important part of the food chain in their time. The differences between modern and prehistoric varieties can be essential, and, like many other creatures of prehistory, the latter tended to be much larger than their contemporary equivalents. This size difference is thought to be due to higher atmospheric oxygen levels (allowing diffusion through spiracles over greater distances), higher temperatures (enhancing metabolism), and the absence of birds as key predators of insect life. Since insects have chitin exoskeletons rather than mineralized bones, their burial processes differ compared to the fossils of much larger vertebrates such as dinosaurs. Many insect remains are found preserved in the hardened sap of ancient trees (amber).
Name Authors Unit Location Notes
Acanthognathus poinari Baroni Urbani & De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A trap-jaw ant
Acanthostichus hispaniolicus De Andrade , 1998 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A doryline ant
Acropyga glaesaria Lapolla , 2005 Dominican amber Dominican Republic Oldest record of trophophoresy in ants
Anochetus ambiguus De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus brevidentatus MacKay , 1991 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus conisquamis De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus dubius De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus exstinctus De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus intermedius De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anochetus lucidus De Andrade , 1994 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A ponerin ant
Anthophorula persephone Engel , 2012 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A bee
Aphaenogaster amphioceanica De Andrade , 1995 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A myrmicin ant
Aphaenogaster avita Fujiyama , 1970 Chojabaru Formation Japan A myrmicin ant
Aphaenogaster praerelicta De Andrade , 1995 Mexican amber Mexico A myrmicin ant
Apterostigma electropilosum Schultz , 2007 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A myrmicin fungus farming ant
Apterostigma eowilsoni Schultz , 2007 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A myrmicin fungus farming ant
Attopsis longipennis Heer , 1849 Radoboj Croatia A formicine ant
Augochlora leptoloba Engel , 1995 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A sweat bee
Dicromantispa electromexicana Engel & Grimaldi , 2007 Mexican Amber Mexico A mantidfly
Dicromantispa moronei Engel & Grimaldi , 2007 Dominican amber Dominican Republic A mantidfly