Nothochrysinae (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark, with description of a new genus
Author
Makarkin, Vladimir N.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 960022, Russia.
Author
Perkovsky, Evgeny E.
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-09
5433
4
529
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.3
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Genus
Furochrysa
gen. nov.
Etymology
. From the Fur Formation, referring to the horizon in which the
type
species is found, and –
chrysa
, a traditional ending for chrysopid names. Gender feminine.
Type
and only species:
Furochrysa alisae
gen et sp. nov.
Diagnosis.
Both fore- and hind wings: inner series of gradate crossveins arranged in smooth line. Forewing:
im
pentagonal; 2m-cu located nearly in middle of
im
; CuP with one branch; A1, A2 not forked. Hind wing: 1im, 1icu very long.
Remarks.
The new genus is most similar to the Danish
Danochrysa
Willmann, 1993
, the Danish-North American
Cimbrochrysa
Schlüter, 1982
, and
Asiachrysa
Makarkin, 2014
from the Russian Far East by the nearly identical shape of the intramedian cell and the location of 2m-cu nearly in the middle of the intramedian cell. The new genus is easily distinguished from
Danochrysa
by its simple A1 and A2 (both forked in
Danochrysa
), and the once forked CuP (two to three times in
Danochrysa
). The inner gradate series of crossveins is arranged in a strongly broken line in all species of
Cimbrochrysa
and all other
Nothochrysinae
known from the Fur Formation, while it is arranged in a smooth line in the new genus. By this character state,
Furochrysa
gen. nov.
is similar to
Asiachrysa
, but all veins in the latter genus are widely spaced and RP1 originates far distad 1ra-rp, while it originates proximad 1ra-rp in the new genus.
The very long crossvein between CuA and CuP (1icu) in the hind wing distinguishes
Furochrysa
gen. nov.
from all other
Nothochrysinae
. Unfortunately, the hind wing venation is unknown in other members of the subfamily from the Fur Formation, but this crossvein is known to be short in North American species of
Cimbrochrysa
(see
Makarkin
et al
. 2022
: Figs 11C, 13C, D).
The number of the RP branches (18) in the forewing of
Furochrysa
gen. nov.
is the greatest among
Nothochrysinae
from the Fur Formation.
An additional long crossvein (labelled ma-rp
1 in
Fig. 5A
) between MA and RP1 is here considered to be an aberration (anomaly).