Fossil diversity in ‘ dawn’ hexapods (Diplura: Projapygoidea), with direct evidence for being chemically predaceous in the Cretaceous
Author
Sánchez-García, Alba
Author
Sendra, Alberto
Author
Davis, Steven
Author
Grimaldi, David A.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2023
2023-03-03
198
3
847
870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac101
journal article
59207
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac101
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0024-4082
8146868
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SYMPHYLURINOPSIS
GEN
.
NOV
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Zoobank registration:
urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act:
5DD3AC90-782C-4455-91F0-8CF232C0951F
Etymology:
The generic name is based on the genus
Symphylurinus
Silvestri, 1909
, with the Greek suffix -
opsis
(meaning, ‘sight, appearance’; thus ‘looking like’). The gender of the name is masculine.
Type
species:
Symphylurinopsis punctatus
sp. nov.
by monotypy.
Diagnosis:
Male. The new genus is readily distinguished from all other genera in the family
Projapygidae
by the following combination of characters: cuticle dorsally and ventrally with distinct setigerous punctures; antenna short, 0.3× length of body, with 23 antennomeres, dolioform; antennomere II with secondary sexual characters, lacking secondary sexual characters on antennomere III and pyriform sensillum on antennomere VII; labial and maxillary palpi uniarticulate and elongate, the maxillary palpus longer than the labial palpus; legs short, slightly increasing in length from first to third pair; tibiae without comb of spatuliform setae and with calcars; claws subequal; cercus elongate, 0.3× length of body, with 15 segments plus the infundibuliform complex, basal segments I–V fused, without secondary sexual characters.