A new genus and species of dustywing is described and figured from Baltic amber. Geroconiocompsa ostara, new genus and species, is closely allied to Archiconiocompsa Enderlein (Coniopterygidae: Aleuropteryginae), itself known from a single Eocene amber species (Archiconiocompsa prisca Enderlein) and tentatively assigned to the Coniocompsini. The new genus shares with Archiconiocompsa the deeply forked forewing M, Cu forked near the wing base, two crossveins between Cu and A1, sc-r present in the forewing, Sc2 not joining Sc1 in the hind wing, and crossveins present between Cu1 and Cu2, and A1 and A2 in the hind wing, but has a more primitive form of venation in the connection of the posterior branch of Rs (R4 5) to the anterior branch of M (M1 2), the shorter distal abscissa of Sc1, and the hind wing r1 -rs distad the Rs fork, features reminiscent of many Aleuropterygini. The new genus further bridges the morphological gap between Coniocompsini and Aleuropterygini highlighting that the former may render the latter paraphyletic. Archiconiocompsa prisca is figured from a newly recognized specimen in Baltic amber.
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1 September 2010
A New Genus of Dustywings Allied to Archiconiocompsa in Baltic Amber (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae)
Michael S. Engel
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Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
Vol. 113 • No. 3/4
September 2010
Vol. 113 • No. 3/4
September 2010
Aleuropteryginae
Coniocompsini
Eocene
Neuropterida
taxonomy