New species of Nymphites Haase (Neuroptera: Nymphidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a redescription of the type species of the genus
Author
Shi, Chaofan
Author
Makarkin, Vladimir N.
Author
Yang, Qiang
Author
Archibald, S. Bruce
Author
Ren, Dong
text
Zootaxa
2013
3700
3
393
410
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3700.3.4
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Genus
Nymphites
Haase,
1890
Nymphites
Haase,
1890
:
23
; Handlirsch
1906–1908
[
1906
]:
608
[
Nymphitidae
]; Jepson
et al
.
2012
:
44
[
Nymphidae
].
Type
species.
Hemerobius priscus
Weyenbergh,
1869
a, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Forewing elongate, broad proximally [strongly narrowed proximally in
Liminympha
Ren
et
Engel,
2007
]; all distal veinlets of ScP once or twice forked [all veinlets of ScP simple in
Mesonymphes
Carpenter,
1929
]; MP with four-five pectinate branches, each connected by one crossvein [crossveins absent between branches of MP in
Liminympha
]; CuP space broad, more than twice as wide as intracubital space [narrow, nearly as wide as intracubital space in
Liminympha
].
Hind
wing MP with four-five pectinate branches [eight branches in
Sialium
Westwood,
1854
]; at least proximal branches of CuA connected by crossveins [not connected in
Mesonymphes
]; CuP short, not pectinately branched. Legs (at least hind) with tibial spurs.
Composition.
Two species from the Jurassic of Eurasia:
Nymphites bimaculatus
sp. nov.
from the Middle Jurassic of
China
, and
Nymphites priscus
(Weyenbergh,
1869
)
from the Late Jurassic of
Germany
.