The family Polycentropodidae (Insecta, Trichoptera) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Author
Wichard, Wilfried
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5933-6292
Universitaet zu Koeln, Institute of Biology and its Didactics, Herbert Lewinstrasse 2, 50931 Cologne, Germany
Author
Xu, Chunpeng
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4991-4279
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
cpxu@nigpas.ac.cn
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ZooKeys
2022
2022-12-09
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1134.93999
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1134.93999
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Neureclipsis triangula
sp. nov.
Fig. 1
Diagnosis.
The extinct species
Neureclipsis triangula
sp. nov. is characterized by a pair of slightly cupped inferior appendages running parallel in ventral view. Each appendage is tapered at the base, wider near the middle and apically forming a sub-triangular shape. Its sloping apical edge is clearly subapically toothed and highlighted in black.
Figure 1.
Neureclipsis triangula
sp. nov.
A
male holotype (NIGP200021) habitus, ventral view
B
inferior appendages, ventral view
C
drawing of inferior appendages, ventral view. Scale bar: 1 mm.
Etymology.
Species named after the inferior appendages, subtriangular (Latin adjective = triangulus, -a, -um).
Holotype.
♂; Myanmar, Kachin State, Hukawng Valley; exact locality unknown; Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber inclusion; deposited in the amber collection of the NIGP; NIGP200021.
Description.
Genus as described above. Body well preserved and visible in ventral and dorsal views. Forewing length about 4.2 mm, oblong, rounded, light brown. Antennae about two-thirds as long as forewings, with about 36 flagellomeres plus scapus and short pedicellus. Inferior appendages having subtriangular shape, with oblique, subapically toothed, and black terminal margin.