Westphaloptilus, Guan & Prokop & Roques & Lapeyrie & Nel, 2016

Guan, Zhaoying, Prokop, Jakub, Roques, Patrick, Lapeyrie, Jean & Nel, André, 2016, Revision of the enigmatic insect family Anthracoptilidae enlightens the evolution of Palaeozoic stem-dictyopterans, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1), pp. 71-87 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00051.2014
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11061035
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/214687AC-1745-9D59-FCBF-4A18A79AF876
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scientific name	Westphaloptilus
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Genus Westphaloptilus nov.

Etymology: Named after the Westphalian stage and Anthracoptilus .

Type species: Westphaloptilus gallicus sp. nov.; monotypic, see below

Diagnosis.—Forewing characters only. Area between C and ScP with a series of veinlets and crossveins; RP emerging from R in basal half of wing; median vein braced to CuA by a short convex mp-cua; CuA and CuP emerging from a long common stem Cu; main stem of CuA strongly convex, but anteriorly pectinate with only three parallel convex branches (apomorphy).

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Westphalian C or D, Carboniferous (= Bashkirian, Lower Pennsylvanian), France

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
SubClass	Palaeozoic
Order	Paoliida
Family	Anthracoptilidae

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