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<paragraph id="8BD136D23A2DEA636DF1FB2299FBFB1A" blockId="15.[181,1142,1094,1671]" pageId="15" pageNumber="184">Etymology: After Mr Gaël De Ploeg who with great talent, helped in preparing the material for study.</paragraph>
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Description: Head
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long. Ocelli absent. Antenna
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long, almost twice as long as head, distinctly hairy, with 13 flagellomeres, all covered with long setae (shortest
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, longest
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). Scape broad and short, rounded; pedicel very short. Eye bare, with distinct dorso-medial extension. Mouthparts lacking functional mandible; palps long, with four visible palpomeres bearing numerous setae, last palpomere the narrowest and longest. Two postocular setae; frontal, inner vertical and outer vertical setae not visible, possibly absent.
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Thorax
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long,
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wide,
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high. Postnotum, scutellum, scutum without visible setae.
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Wing macropterous,
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long,
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wide, hyaline; membrane without setae.
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ending at apex of R
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; radius with only 3 branches R
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, R
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, and R
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; R
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rather long, 1.66 times as long as R
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; R
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simple, closely aligned and parallel to R
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. Crossvein MCu present, in a very basal position, about midway between base of M and RM. Fork of Cu nearly opposite RM; Cu
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curved. Anal vein An
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absent. Halter
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long.
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Figs 1517.
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, holotype 66: (15) general habitus; (16) forewing; (17) details of forewing venation. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.
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Fore femur length
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, mid femur
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, hind femur
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.
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Abdomen narrow,
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wide.
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:
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[
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]: Hammana / Mdeyrij, Caza Baabda; Early Cretaceous (
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Discussion. Following the key to Holarctic subfamilies of
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and to Palaearctic subfamilies in
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Saether
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(2000)
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,
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falls in the
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because of the combination of the following characters: wing macropterous; MCu present; R
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present, simple; wing membrane without setae; FCu distal to MCu. Furthermore,
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has bare eyes, unlike most recent
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6D94FDDA9B8BFCD2" blockId="17.[181,1142,206,967]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">
Among the non-Holarctic subfamilies, affinities with the
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are excluded because
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6C51FD3A99BBFD73" box="[277,450,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
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has retained MCu and R
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, but it has a narrow space between R
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and the costa. In the Usambaromyiinae, MCu is absent. The Chilenomyiinae have a MCu in a basal position (less basal than in
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6FD8FD7A9B30FD33" box="[668,841,718,742]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), but no R
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. Furthermore, unlike
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6C46FD5A99D6FCD3" box="[258,431,750,774]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, their wings are uniformly covered with dense hair.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6D94FCBA9BB8FC12" blockId="17.[181,1142,206,967]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">
Within the
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C6E4D513A33EA7D6CB8FCBA9AD0FCF3" authorityName="Veltz &amp; Azar &amp; Nel" authorityYear="2007" box="[508,681,782,806]" class="Insecta" family="Chironomidae" genus="Libanodiamesa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL,GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="186" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6CB8FCBA9AD0FCF3" box="[508,681,782,806]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from all recent genera in the much more basal position of MCu, located midway between base of M and RM, and in the R
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which ends well basad of the wing apex (Saether 1989). The lack of genital organs in the
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of
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6CCDFCDA9A4FFC53" box="[393,566,878,902]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
renders it impossible to predict the relationship of this genus with the other recent genera.
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6F35FC3A9B67FC73" box="[625,798,910,934]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6E10FC3A9B89FC73" box="[852,1008,910,934]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Cretadiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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(see below) are the oldest representatives of the subfamily
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6CB6FC529B40FC2A" blockId="17.[498,825,998,1023]" box="[498,825,998,1023]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">
Genus
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6F05FC529A9EFC2A" bold="true" box="[577,743,998,1023]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Cretadiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22957BB3A33EA7D6FA9FC529B40FC2A" box="[749,825,998,1023]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186" rank="genus">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6DF1FBA79AE6FBF9" blockId="17.[181,1141,1043,1212]" box="[181,671,1043,1068]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">
Etymology: After Cretaceous and
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6F70FBA09AE1FBF9" box="[564,664,1044,1068]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Diamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6DF1FB8F9BF1FB81" blockId="17.[181,1141,1043,1212]" box="[181,904,1083,1108]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">
Type species:
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6C10FB889A4DFB81" box="[340,564,1084,1108]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Cretadiamesa arieli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, by present designation.
</paragraph>
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Diagnosis: Closely similar to
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<emphasis id="B91AEAC03A33EA7D6F46FBD09AD6FBA9" box="[514,687,1124,1148]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">Libanodiamesa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; the differences with this genus being as follows: veins R 1 and R 4+5 strongly approximate; R 2+3 very weakly indicated; apex of R
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6D8CFB01989BFB16" box="[200,226,1205,1219]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">4+5</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD136D23A33EA7D6DADFB179A90FB69" blockId="17.[181,1141,1043,1212]" box="[233,745,1187,1212]" pageId="17" pageNumber="186">near wing apex; costa ending near wing apex.</paragraph>
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