Nedocosia novacaesarea, BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI, 2004

BLAGODEROV, VLADIMIR & GRIMALDI, DAVID, 2004, Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous Ambers, Exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae, American Museum Novitates 3433 (1), pp. 1-76 : 38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)433<0001:FSDICA>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5060505
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87C9-FFA5-FFBA-FD6A-FF78FB85F909
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nedocosia novacaesarea
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Nedocosia novacaesarea View in CoL , new species

Figure 47 View Figs , Plate 5C

DIAGNOSIS: Flagellum 11segmented. Sc long, ends at R between RS and rm bases. Base of M 3+4 and CuA fork at level of rm. Fore leg with tibia equal to femur or slightly longer.

DESCRIPTION: Body length = 2.34 mm (holotype)/ 2.88 mm (paratype); wing length = 1.75 mm (holotype)/ 2.20 mm (paratype). Head: Three ocelli in line, distances between median and lateral ones, and between lateral and eye margin, are equal. Face rectangular, bare. Clypeus bare. Scape and pedicel round ed, shorter than flagellomeres. Flagellum 11 segmented, flagellomeres cylindrical, with lengths 2Χ width. Two palpomeres seen, apical one 2Χ length of basal. Thoracic sclerites bare. Scutum with long lateral setae and numerous short ones, not arranged in rows. Proepimeron small, fits in shallow incision on katepisternum. Anepisternal suture declines backward. Metepisternum touches anepimeron. Meron large. Wing: Costa ends beyond tip of R 5, more than onethird length between tips of R 5 and M 1. Sc long, ends at R between RS and rm bases. Length of R 1 2.5–3Χ that of rm, M3 section twice that of rm. Length of fork of M 1 and M 2 2.5–3Χ M3 section. Base of fork of M 3+4 and CuA at level of rm base. Legs: Fore coxae with short anterior setae, hind coxae with long posterolateral setae. Fore leg with tibia equal to femur. Tibial spurs 1.2–1.5Χ tibial diameter. Abomen setose. Seventh segment very narrow. Gonocoxites massive, with apices blunt.

MATERIAL: Holotype AMNH NJ117k, male; paratype NJ117l, male in the same piece. USA: New Jersey, Sayreville, coll. P. Nascimbene.

ETYMOLOGY: The species epithet is derived from Latin Nova Caesarea meaning ‘‘New Jersey’’ and is a reference to the state of origin of the amber.

COMMENTS: The species is similar in venation to Docosia baisae Blagoderov, 1998 and D. zaza Blagoderov, 1998 , by proximal position of the forked base of M 3+4 and CuA, but differs from the latter species in having Sc long and M3 section short.