The new species of Holocentropus, Plectrocnemia and Phryganea (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Eocene Rovno amber
Author
Melnitsky, Stanislav I.
0000-0003-4535-1886
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7 / 9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia; E-mail: simelnitsky @ yandex. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4535 - 1886; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3294 - 4965
Author
Ivanov, Vladimir D.
0000-0003-4535-1886
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7 / 9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia; E-mail: simelnitsky @ yandex. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4535 - 1886; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3294 - 4965
Author
Vasilenko, Evgeny E. Perkovsky Dmitry V.
Author
Legalov, Andrei A.
0000-0001-7347-8169
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630091 Novosibirsk, Russia; & Department of Ecology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Altai State University, 656049 Barnaul, Russia; & Department of Forestry and Landscape Construction, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia; Corresponding author. E-mail: fossilweevils @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7347 - 8169
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2024
2024-11-22
80
1
12
https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.80.1
journal article
10.37828/em.2024.80.1
2336-9744
14653188
838F6B2E-A066-4B36-A682-098BFEFB753A
Plectrocnemia pluripotentia
Melnitsky, Ivanov & Perkovsky
sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
C2CBD778-62BF-4CEB-8386-462865177C39
(
Figs 3
,
4
,
9 B
)
Type material:
Holotype
. Male.
SIZK
K–27466,
Klesov
,
Rovno
amber, late Eocene.
Description.
Body length
3.1 mm
; forewing length 4.0 mm. Head and antennae yellowish, thorax, legs, abdomen, and wings brown with light brown hairs. Head with light hairs.
Male genitalia. Inferior appendages elongate with large lobe-shaped oval flat extension at the apex. Posterior margin of segment X on caudal view with membranous body and two small spines directed forward, there are two small sclerotized areas under this lobe. Membranous body of segment X is located near the oval extended apex of inferior appendages. The apex of the aedeagus is pointed, sclerotized, curved downwards.
Figure 3
.
Plectrocnemia pluripotentia
sp. nov.
Male type, general view, ventral. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Comparison.
The new species has some similarity with
Plectrocnemia ventralis
Ulmer, 1912
and differs from it in the shape of dorsal complex of genitalia:
P. ventralis
has two powerful spines of segment 10 directed backwards, the new species has smaller spines directed other way.
Ulmer (1912)
suggested presence of the color variation in
P. ventralis
:
some specimens were black and some were amber yellow. We have the brown-tinted
type
specimen. The difference might be related to species distinction, although may represent different degree of preservation.
Figure 4
.
Plectrocnemia pluripotentia
sp. nov.
Male type, genitalia, ventral. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.
Etymology.
The specific name
pluripotentia
from Latin (pluralis – multiple and potentia – possibility, ability, strength).
Distribution.
Priabonian
Rovno
amber.
Remarks
. The specimen was found in the small piece of amber (
1.3 g
after primary treatment) from Pugach quarry (
Mitov
et al.
2021
).
Phryganeidae Leach, 1815