Family Panorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Baltic amber (upper Eocene): new species, redescription and palaeogeographic remarks of relict scorpionflies
Author
Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka
Author
Krzemiński, Wiesław
text
Zootaxa
2013
3636
3
489
499
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.7
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1175-5326
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Panorpodes hageni
(Carpenter, 1954)
(
Figs. 7–8
)
Panorpodes hageni
Carpenter 1954: 33
–34
Material examined.
Photographs of
holotype
housed in Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
FIGURES 2–5.
Panorpodes brevicauda
:
2.
Head.
3.
Forewing:
A,
dorsal and distal part;
B,
anal part.
4.
Hind wing:
A,
dorsal and distal part;
B,
anal par.
5.
Male:
A,
abdomen, dorsal view;
B,
right dististyle, posterior aspect.
Diagnosis.
Separated from other species from Baltic amber by dark-colored wings with four transparent narrow bands compared to transparent wings of
P. brevicauda
and wings with dark, narrow and broken bands of
P. weitschati
sp. nov
.
Redescription.
Forewings (
Fig. 8
) dark with four narrow, transparent bands, most distal band irregular, resembling spots merged together; second and third bands wider than others and most regular, extending from costa to posterior margin; most basal band not reaching posterior margin, extending from costa to slightly beyond vein Cu2; wing venation as in
P. brevicauda
, with the exception of crossveins, which are very delicate and poorly visible; anal region invisible.
Hind
wings dark with pattern of transparent bands similar to forewing.
Remarks
. The
holotype
was redescribed from photographs. The illustrations provided in this paper are the first for this species. The majority of the hind wing area is covered by the fore wings and reconstruction of the hind wing venation is impossible, especially without the specimen at hand.