Revision of Archizelmira Rohdendorf, 1962 (Diptera, Archizelmiridae)
Author
LUKASHEVICH, ELENA DMITRIEVNA
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Palaeoentomology
2022
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.8
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Genus
Archizelmira
Rohdendorf, 1962
Archizelmira
:
Rohdendorf, 1962: 326
.
Archizelmira
:
Grimaldi
et al
., 2003: 369
.
Type
species.
Archizelmira kazachstanica
Rohdendorf, 1962
(
Karatau
,
Kazakhstan
, J
3
;
Shar Teg
,
Mongolia
, J
3
)
.
Other species.
Archizelmira baissa
Grimaldi
et al
., 2003
(
Baissa, Transbaikalia, K
1
),
Archizelmira jarzembowskii
sp. nov.
(Kubekovo, Central Siberia, J
2
).
Diagnosis
(emended). Small midge, wing membrane densely clothed in microtrichia combined with numerous fine setae, costal vein with several rows of fine setae, other veins each with single such row; C ending slightly beyond R
5
apex; R
4
connecting to C close to R
1
; CuP in distal half subparallel to CuA.
Remarks.
True setae, or macrotrichia, on wing membrane and veins (
Fig. 3
) are an important character in Sciaroidea (
e
.
g
., they are usually absent on the wing membrane of
Sciaridae
), but it has been missed in previous descriptions of
Archizelmira
.