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<mods:namePart>Evenhuis, Neal L.</mods:namePart>
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(
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)
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[147,282,852,872]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Type material</emphasis>
.
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male (BPBMENT 0000016434) and
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female (BPBMENT 0000016435) from
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:
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:
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in the same amber piece.
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: a separate amber piece with male (
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) from same locality. The amber pieces containing the
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and
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are deposited in the entomological collection of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[147,571,1003,1025]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Etymology of genus and species epithets</emphasis>
. The generic (combining
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+ the Greek ^λέκτρα
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” = “amber”) and specific names honor my good friend and colleague Vladimir Blagoderov for his significant contributions to fossil dipterology and for increasing our knowledge of Sciaroidea.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[147,246,1140,1162]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. As for genus.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[147,266,1195,1217]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Description</emphasis>
.
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. Based on two specimens, each with head, legs and abdomen cleared internally. Lengths: Body:
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; wing:
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. (Habitus
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. Occiput and frons pale brown. Face and clypeus dark brown. Eyes without inter-ommatidial setae; facets of two sizes, upper half of eye with larger ommatidia than lower half. Ocelli not discernable due to opacity of head capsule. Palp (
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) moniliform, three-segmented, each segment lozenge-shaped, subequal in length, apicalmost segment setose on apical half, with subapical palpal pit. Antennae (
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): brown, scape and pedicel discoid. Flagellum: 14 segments; segments 14 cylindrical, ca. two times longer than wide; segments 514 length subequal to width; terminal segment (14) subconical.
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<emphasis box="[194,263,1459,1480]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Thorax</emphasis>
. Dark brown. Notum with sparse long hairs irregularly arranged. Scutellum with long hairs at apex. Pleura brownish black (vestiture not viewable). Halter stem pale brown, knob brown.
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.
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, lower portion of male head showing palpi and eye divided into upper and lower ommatidia.
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. illustration to clarify structures.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[149,203,1032,1051]" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Fig. 4</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis box="[216,426,1032,1051]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="4">Vladelektra blagoderovi</emphasis>
Evenhuis
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,
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, antennae: male above, female below, both to scale. Abbreviations: I = flagellomere I; pe = pedicel.
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. Brown. Coxae long, all same length. Hind femur with yellow color basoventrally and thin yellow stripe ventrally on basal two-thirds. Tibiae with trichia not arranged in rows. Tibial spurs long: 1: 2: 2. Tibial length 1.25 times femoral length; basitarsus length 1/2 length of tibia. Tarsi shorter than body length. Claws minute.
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(
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). Hyaline. Costa with minute spicules along entire length; microchaetae on
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, all other veins bare. Costa ends beyond end of
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two-thirds distance to end of M
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. Sc incomplete.
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ending in C two-thirds distance from end of
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to end of
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and M
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effaced, junction of M
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and M
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faintly evident. M
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effaced at base, curved downward on apical fourth. CuA complete, curved downward at apical one-fourth. CuP absent. Alula reduced.
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Brown with spot of yellow at posterolateral corner of each tergite. Long, thin, slightly dorso-ventrally compressed, with sparse hairs dorsally, laterally, and ventrolaterally.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[149,203,1445,1465]" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Fig. 5</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis box="[215,424,1446,1465]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="5">Vladelektra blagoderovi</emphasis>
Evenhuis
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,
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, male wing.
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.
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.
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illustration to clarify venation.
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. detail of wing base showing effaced veins.
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.
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, female wing showing effaced medial vein and lack of vein R
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.
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Genitalia (
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) Gonocoxa linear-conical, long, thin. Gonostylus long, thin, tapering to darkly sclerotized bifid apical one-fifth, with short setae along dorsal surface, other short setae subapically on ventral surface. Tergal apodeme short, narrow, slightly flared basally. Epandrium subquadrate, slightly tapered to apex, ca. two times longer than basal width, with rounded apex, and patch of minute villi on apical fifth.
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. As in male except lack of vein
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(cf.
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) and shorter antennae (cf.
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). Basal connection of veins M
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and M
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not effaced; vein M
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not reaching wing margin.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[195,288,938,959]" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Remarks</emphasis>
. The close proximity of the tips of the abdomens of the
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male and
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female lead to the possibility that they became trapped while
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and separated during their struggle to escape.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[503,650,1055,1077]" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">DISCUSSION</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[147,257,1093,1114]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Vladelektra</emphasis>
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intriguingly exhibits features of both
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(s. str.) (wing venation) and the former
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[now a subfamily within
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(
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Matic
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. 2020)] (male genitalia with tergal apodeme). Although lacking a well developed proboscis as in many lygistorrhinids (
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<emphasis box="[354,440,1181,1202]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Seguyola</emphasis>
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also lacks them) and possessing male genitalia reminiscent of many lygistorrhinids, especially in the presence of the tergal apodeme (see
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), the wing venation with effaced basal portions of medial and cubital veins, and the presence of
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the male (although lacking in the female) would seem to better place
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<emphasis box="[147,257,1298,1319]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Vladelektra</emphasis>
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within
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(s. str.) for now. The radial-medial fusion (characteristic of
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) that is not seen in this species could be there, but is not discernable due the effaced base of the medial veins. The dimorphism between males and females is most striking in the presence (males) or absence (females) of
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and also evident in the differences in length of the antennae and in shape of the antennal flagellomeres (cf.
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).
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Within
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(s. str.), the specimens appear similar in some respects to the extant Afrotropical
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<emphasis box="[336,460,1474,1495]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Asynaphleba</emphasis>
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(both having 14-segmented flagellomeres; short
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, and moniliform palpal segments). However, it is clearly not that genus based on the presence of CuP (absent in
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), and
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ending in C closer to the end of
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than
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(ending closer to
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4+
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). Additionally,
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has a distinct stem of M, base of M
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, and m-cu, all of which are effaced in
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<emphasis box="[791,903,1192,1213]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Vladelektra</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[149,202,1040,1059]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Fig. 7</emphasis>
.
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Evenhuis
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,
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, male genitalia. Abbreviations: ep = epandrium; gx - gonocoxa; gs = gonostylus; ta = tergal apodeme.
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is also similar to the keroplatine Papuan and Oriental
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Xenokeroplatus</emphasis>
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Matile,
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wing venation (especially effaced bases of medial vweins) and lacks vein CuP, which characterizes the latter genus among
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in those keys, but (besides having three instead of two palpal segments)
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differs in having legs much shorter (tarsi longer than body length in
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), external tibial spurs present (absent in
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), shorter mediotergite (more pronounced in
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), male antennal flagellomeres more cylindrical (compressed and shorter in overall length in
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), and distinctly different male genitalia with tergal apodeme present (absent in
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<emphasis box="[323,473,1456,1477]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Xenokeroplatus</emphasis>
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).
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described a keroplatid,
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<emphasis box="[703,790,1486,1507]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Hegalari</emphasis>
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from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Alava,
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that also lacks vein CuP. They were unsure of the placement of the genus within the family, but its features were most similar to those belonging to
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.
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<emphasis box="[566,653,224,245]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Hegalari</emphasis>
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is not the same as
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<emphasis box="[828,940,224,245]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Vladelektra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in that the antennae of the
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species,
<taxonomicName authority="Blagoderov &amp; Arillo" authorityName="Blagoderov &amp; Arillo" authorityYear="2002" box="[467,859,254,276]" class="Insecta" family="Keroplatidae" genus="Hegalari" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="antzinako">
<emphasis box="[467,653,254,275]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Hegalari antzinako</emphasis>
Blagoderov &amp; Arillo
</taxonomicName>
, are somewhat compressed and the overall length is much shorter than those in males of
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<emphasis box="[893,1005,283,304]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Vladelektra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(probably due to the
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of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Blagoderov &amp; Arillo" authorityYear="2002" box="[424,547,312,334]" class="Insecta" family="Keroplatidae" genus="Hegalari" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="antzinako">
<emphasis box="[424,547,312,334]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. antzinako</emphasis>
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possibly being a female). However, the second species described in that paper,
<emphasis box="[454,608,342,363]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Blagoderov &amp; Arillo" authorityYear="2002" box="[454,602,342,363]" class="Insecta" family="Keroplatidae" genus="Hegalari" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minor">Hegalari minor</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
is much more similar to
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<emphasis box="[852,964,342,363]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Vladelektra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and has much longer antennae with more cylindrical flagellomeres as in
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<emphasis box="[829,941,371,392]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Vladelektra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
males and slightly different wing venation than
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<emphasis box="[550,674,400,422]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. antzinako</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and might be better removed to a separate genus.
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<emphasis box="[302,414,430,451]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Vladelektra</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis box="[544,631,430,451]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. minor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having
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<subScript attach="left" box="[753,762,440,457]" fontSize="7" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">4</subScript>
closer to the apex of the wing than in
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<emphasis box="[276,363,460,481]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. minor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the base of M
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effaced (present in
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<emphasis box="[715,802,460,481]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. minor</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and the apicalmost male flagellomere length subequal to width (two times as long as wide in
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<emphasis box="[863,950,489,510]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">H. minor</emphasis>
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).
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This marks the third described species of
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from Burmese amber (
<bibRefCitation author="Guo, M. &amp; Xing, L. &amp; Wang, B. &amp; Zhang, W. &amp; Wang, S. &amp; Shi, A. &amp; Bai, M." journalOrPublisher="Zoological Systematics" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" pagination="249 - 379" part="42" refId="ref3002" refString="Guo, M., Xing, L., Wang, B., Zhang, W. - w., Wang, S., Shi, A. - m. &amp; Bai, M. 2017. A catalogue of Burmite inclusions. Zoological Systematics 42 (3): 249 - 379." title="A catalogue of Burmite inclusions" type="journal article" year="2017">
Guo
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">et al.</emphasis>
2017
</bibRefCitation>
[species of which are treated in
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];
<bibRefCitation author="Ross, A. J." box="[718,820,547,568]" journalOrPublisher="Palaeoentomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" pagination="22 - 84" part="2" refId="ref3332" refString="Ross, A. J. 2019. Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018. Palaeoentomology 2: 22 - 84." title="Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018" type="journal article" year="2019">Ross 2019</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Cockerell, T. D. A." box="[841,1005,547,569]" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Entomological Society of America" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" pagination="323 - 329" part="10" refId="ref2875" refString="Cockerell, T. D. A. 1917. Insects in Burmese amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 10: 323 - 329." title="Insects in Burmese amber" type="journal article" year="1917">Cockerell (1917)</bibRefCitation>
described
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<emphasis box="[246,385,577,598]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Burmacrocera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(now placed in
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).
<bibRefCitation author="Sevcik, J. &amp; Krzeminski, W. &amp; Skibinska, K." box="[649,842,571,598]" journalOrPublisher="Insects" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" pagination="552" part="11" refId="ref3466" refString="Sevcik, J., Krzeminski, W. &amp; Skibinska, K. 2020. Intriguing and beautiful: Adamomacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar represents a new subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha). Insects 2020, 11, 552; doi: 10. 3390 / insects 11090552." title="Intriguing and beautiful: Adamomacrocera adami gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous amber of Myanmar represents a new subfamily of Keroplatidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha)" type="journal article" year="2020">
Ševčík
<emphasis box="[722,765,576,598]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">et al</emphasis>
. (2020)
</bibRefCitation>
described a second species (in the new genus
<emphasis box="[441,583,606,627]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Adamacrocera</emphasis>
) belonging to a new putative primitive subfamily with similarities to
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.
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