A well-preserved aneuretopsychid from the Jehol Biota of China (Insecta, Mecoptera, Aneuretopsychidae)
Author
Ren, Dong
Author
Shih, ChungKun
Author
Labandeira, Conrad C.
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ZooKeys
2011
129
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.129.1282
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.129.1282
1313-2970-129-17
Family
Aneuretopsychidae Rasnitsyn & Kozlov, 1990
Type genus:
Aneuretopsyche
Rasnitsyn & Kozlov, 1990
Emended diagnosis.
Moderate-sized insects, mouthpart position most probably opisthognathous; hypognathous placement possible. Adults have a remarkably prolonged, siphonate proboscis, its exterior covered with well-developed dense hairs or microtrichia arranged in distinct annulae; terminus surrounded by a distinctive, lobed, fleshy pseudolabellum. Antennae distinctly longer than proboscis, multiarticulate; articles covered with annulate hairs. Forewing elongate. Sc with multiple branches. Both Rs and MA bifurcating; MP 4-branched. CuA single or probably bifurcating. Hindwing distinctly broader than forewing. Hairs on legs arranged in distinctive rings.
Included genera.
In addition to the type genus,
Jeholopsyche
gen. n.