Spotted beauty-Gedanochila museisucini gen. et sp. nov. - a new Achilidae from Eocene Baltic amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) and its relation to Achilini
Author
Brysz, Alicja Magdalena
Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, 59, Wita Stwosza Street, PL 80 - 308 Gdańsk, Poland.
Author
Bourgoin, Thierry
Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Université-EPHE-Univ. Antilles, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturell, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F- 75005, Paris, France.
Author
Szwedo, Jacek
Laboratory of Evolutionary Entomology and Museum of Amber Inclusions, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, 59, Wita Stwosza Street, PL 80 - 308 Gdańsk, Poland.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-04-11
5125
3
295
312
journal article
56071
10.11646/zootaxa.5125.3.3
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Gedanochila
Brysz et Szwedo
,
gen. nov.
Type
species.
Gedanochila museisucini
Brysz et Szwedo
sp. nov.
; by present designation and monotypy.
Etymology.
Generic name is derived from Latin name of the city of Gdańsk ‘Gedanum’ and achilid planthopper generic name
Achila
. Gender: feminine.
Diagnosis.
Vertex distinctly wider than long; separated by a transverse carina from frons, trigons absent; in lateral view the angle between vertex and frons blunt; loral suture oblique; labium short, reaching metacoxae. Pronotal disc elevated, arcuate, with lateral margins carinate; post-ocular carina absent. Metatibia with lateral spine at ⅔ from base, with 10 apical teeth (some slightly shifted from base), basimetatarsomere longer than combined length of mid- and apical metarsomeres, with subapical setae, midmetatarsomere with subapical setae. Stem ScP+R+MP leaving basal cell with a short common stalk. Stem MP forked at level of claval apex (stem MP forked apicad of claval apex in
Achilus
Kirby, 1818
,
Olmiana
Guglielmino, Bückle et Emeljanov, 2010
and
Ouwea
Distant, 1907
); stalk CuA
2
before fork on membrane short (in
Achilus
stalk CuA
2
long before fork on membrane), with two terminals (as in
Olmiana
and
Achilus
).
Age and occurrence.
Lutetian, Eocene, Baltic amber, Gulf of Gdańsk area, secondary deposit.
Note.
The new genus is placed in
Achilini
based on set of characters recognized by
Emeljanov (1992)
: medium size, not enlarged or broadened head, prolonged frons with sides (sub)parallel, comparatively large pronotum, wider than head with compound eyes, disc of vertex carinate, tegmina slopingly tectate, with basal portion of costal margin arcuately convex, with enlarged costal cell, short common stem ScP+R+MP, stigmal area with crossveins, both branches of CuA forked on membrane, hind wing with RP branched, MP 3-branched, CuA 4-branched, metatibia with single lateral tooth in distal ⅓, basi- and midmetatarsomeres with subapical setae. See also discussion below.