A Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Oligocene of Germany
Author
Skartveit, John
0000-0001-7614-3399
Author
Wedmann, Sonja
0000-0002-9778-4125
edmann@senckenberg.de
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-19
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journal article
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Penthetria
sp. 2 (figs. 16, 102)
Penthetria
♂ Nr. 2
Statz 1943: 41–42
.
Localities
: Rott.
Material examined
: LACMIP 2533.247ab/LACMIP
Type
3377.
The specimen is represented by a single, poorly preserved male specimen from Rott. This specimen is characterized mainly by its small size, with a wing length of only
4.3 mm
, but does not exhibit sufficient characters to warrant a formal species description. Its size does, however, distinguish it from all other known fossil
Penthetria
. The strongly curved R
4+5
could suggest that the species should be placed in genus
Hesperinus
, however the relatively large head is unlike those usually found in that genus.
Description
:
Female unknown.
Male (N=1, figs. 16, 102):
Total length
5.4 mm
, specimen entirely brown (probably not original colour)
Head: Length
0.76 mm
, width
0.76 mm
. No details discernible, antennae and palpuss not preserved.
Thorax: Length
1.3 mm
, dorsally relatively flat. Scutellum small, not prominent. Haltere brown. Pile not preserved.
Wing (fig. 102): Length
4.3 mm
, width
1.7 mm
, length/width = 2.6. Light brownish (possibly hyaline in life), veins brown, distinctive, radial veins strong, posterior veins much finer. Humeral ven present, vertical. Subcosta straight, distinctive. Pterostigma oval, brown, distinctive. R
2+3
rather long, almost straight. R
4+5
apically rather strongly curved. Crossvein R-M slightly oblique. Vein measurements are given in
Table 3
.
Legs: Brown, slender, relatively short. Fore tibia
1.1 mm
long,
0.11 mm
wide.
Abdomen: cylindrical,
3.8 mm
long,
0.8 mm
wide. Pile not preserved.
Terminalia: Poorly preserved. Gonostylus apparently relatively slender.