First Upper Triassic Diptera (Insecta) from Germany
Author
Lukashevich, Elena Dmitrievna
Elena D. Lukashevich, Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, Russia
Author
Ansorge, Jörg
Jörg Ansorge, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straβe 17 a, D- 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-01-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.8
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5403.1.8
1175-5326
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Family
Boholdoyidae Kovalev
in
Kalugina & Kovalev, 1985
Type
genus.
Boholdoyia
Kovalev
, 1985 (
Novospasskoye
,
Transbaikalia
,
Russia
, J
1–2
– K
1
)
Composition.
Besides the
type
and the new genus, the monotypic
Daiamyi
a
Kovalev, 1990
from the
Upper Jurassic
or
Lower Cretaceous of Daya
,
Transbaikalia
,
Russia
.
Remarks.
V. Kovalev described the family based on
one male
with badly preserved wings and the diagnosis of the family included a lot of body characters (Kovalev in
Kalugina & Kovalev 1985
). Later
two males
were described from other Mesozoic deposits and the venation of the family became clear (
Kovalev 1990
). The new Upper Triassic isolated wings from
Germany
share the same pattern of venation. The following characters, visible in the Triassic wings, are diagnostic for the family (so they are not mentioned in the diagnosis of the new genus below): C extends along entire wing, strongly thickened at the anterior and distal margin, weak but distinct along the posterior margin, Sc weak, shorter than half of the wing, R
1
ends about wing midlength, Rs stem long, Rs with three long free branches, R
2+3
begins proximal to
r-m
and ends in the wing margin far from R
1
, R
4+5
fork several times longer than distal portion of R
4+5
stem, R
5
ends in the wing apex, basal cells closed;
ba
longer and narrower than
bp
, ends near wing midlength, three medial veins, M
1+2
fork distal to
r-m
.