The Palaeorehniidae (Orthoptera, Ensifera, “ Zeuneropterinae ”), and new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America
Author
Archibald, S. Bruce
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V 5 A 1 S 6, Canada Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States of America & Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V 8 W 9 W 2, Canada
Author
Gu, Jun-Jie
College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611130, China
Author
Mathewes, Rolf W.
0000-0001-7637-199X
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V 5 A 1 S 6, Canada Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States of America & r _ mathewes @ sfu. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7637 - 199 X
r_mathewes@sfu.ca
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-02-22
5100
4
559
572
journal article
20508
10.11646/zootaxa.5100.4.6
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1175-5326
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Ypopteron nicola
new species
(
Fig. 4
)
Haglidae
, Prophalangopsinae sp.:
Archibald and Mathewes 2000: 1443
,
Fig. 3
.
FIGURE 4.
Ypopteron nicola
,
new genus and species
, holotype Q-1010, Quilchena: A, photograph; B, drawing. Scale bar = 1 cm.
Diagnosis.
As for genus.
Description.
Holotype
tegmen. As in diagnosis and: about
6.5 cm
long as preserved (small portion of basalmost region missing); membrane apparently infuscate throughout; RA, RP branch distal branching of MA, MP; RP branching eight times, one branch branched again near margin; MA, MP branch at level of CuA joining CuPaα, distally parallel with branches of RP; CuA+CuPaα with five branches preserved, probably total; no stridulatory file detected on CuPb; simple crossveins throughout proximal posterior portion; zigzag intercalated crossveins forming pentagons in apical portion of overlapping wing between branches of RP.
Type specimen.
Holotype
.
Q-1010
, part (no counterpart), two or more wings, two almost perfectly overlapping. The anterior regions (RA, stem of RP, ScA, SCP and precostal region) are missing or covered by portions of one or more wing(s); labelled
Ypopteron nicola
Archibald, Gu, and Mathewes
, holotype; collected by
Jurgen Mathewes
,
1989
; deposited in the collections of Simon Fraser University.
Locality and age.
Quilchena,
British Columbia
; Coldwater Beds; mid Ypresian, 51.5 ± 0.4 Ma. old.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the Nicola Valley, where the Quilchena locality is located.