Ahiromaimetsha Perrichot, Azar, Nel & Engel

Perrichot, Vincent, Ortega-Blanco, Jaime, McKellar, Ryan C., Delclos, Xavier, Azar, Dany, Nel, Andre, Tafforeau, Paul & Engel, Michael S., 2011, New and revised maimetshid wasps from Cretaceous ambers (Hymenoptera, Maimetshidae), ZooKeys 130, pp. 421-453 : 437

Ahiromaimetsha Perrichot, Azar, Nel & Engel gen. n.

Type species.

Ahiromaimetsha najlae Perrichot, Azar, Nel & Engel, sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Antennae apparently with 16 articles; pedicel straight; forewing costal cell apically about as wide as pterostigmal width; prestigma not incrassate, not wider than base of R, about as long as 1Rs (distinctly separated from pterostigma); cell [2R1] long, nearly 4x longer than wide; cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] present, former greatly enlarged; 2Rs+M absent owing to confluence of 1m-cu with 2Rs; 1rs-m exceptionally minute (Figs 11, 12D); 2rs-m completely sclerotized; protibial spur bifurcate apically; female tarsi with apicoventral plantar lobes.

Etymology.

The new genus-group name is a combination of Ahirom, Phoenician king of Byblos (ca. 1000 BC) whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription in the Phoenician alphabet, and Maimetsha , type genus of the family. The name is considered to be feminine.

Comments.

Ahiromaimetsha can be distinguished most easily from other genera by the effective absence of 2Rs+M owing to the confluence of 1m-cu with the second free abscissa of Rs. Like Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni and Andyrossia joyceae , Ahiromaimetsha najlae has a large cell [1Rs] but even more so than in the aforementioned species and, unlike Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni , the prestigma is not incrassate.