Burmopsychops, Lu & Zhang & Liu, 2016

Lu, Xiumei, Zhang, Weiwei & Liu, Xingyue, 2016, Nomenclatural validation of new genera and species of the superfamily Psychopsoidea (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar, Zoological Systematics 41 (3), pp. 323-326 : 325-326

Genus Burmopsychops gen. nov. ( Figs 6–14 )

Burmopsychops Lu, Zhang & Liu, 2016: 6 . nom. invalid. Type species: Burmopsychops limoae Lu, Zhang & Liu, 2016: 7 . nom. invalid.

Diagnosis. Small-sized lacewings (forewing length about 7.7 mm). Head ( Figs 6, 9 ) orthognathous, feebly domed dorsally. Compound eye with maximum diameter slightly shorter than distance between inner margins of eyes. Ocelli absent. Antenna moniliform, nearly half length of forewing, densely hairy. Mouthparts composed of a short, medially slightly concaved labrum, reduced mandibles, and conspicuously elongated maxillae and labium; maxilla with long blade-like lobe (putative galea or galea + lacinia), which is about 3/4 as long as maxillary palp with truncate tip; labium with paired, elongated, distally pointed ligula, which is about 3/4 as long as labial palp. Pronotum nearly as long as wide. Legs slender, tibial spur absent. Wings broad, moderately veined, immaculate. Forewing ovoid, distinctly broadened distad; trichosores present along distal half of wing margin; nygma absent; costal space rather broad except for narrow base, with a short simple humeral veinlet slightly bent to wing base, and with many costal crossveins distally forked except for some simple ones on proximal half; subcostal space about 1/5 as wide as costal space at middle; distal parts of Sc and R distinctly curved posteriad but not fused with each other; Rs with seven main branches, each of which bears secondary forking and end-twigging, except anterior two branches only with end-twigging; MA diverging from R and bifurcated distad; MP initially branched near wing base, anterior branch bifurcated nearly at distal 1/4, posterior branch dichotomously branched from midlength; CuA trifurcated distad, CuP pectinately branched from midlength; A1 distally bifurcated; A2 and A3 deeply bifurcated near wing base; J short and simple; a number of crossveins present proximad outer gradate series. Hindwing slightly narrower than forewing, ovoid, but strongly narrowed proximad; venation primarily similar to that of forewing; single Rs+MA separating from R near wing base; CuP probably deeply dichotomously branched; CuA pectinately branched; CuP simple; A1 and A2 present, but simple.

Etymology. The generic epithet is a combination of Burma ( Myanmar) and psychops (a common ending of Psychopsoidea ). Gender masculine.

Remarks. See Lu et al. (2016).

Figures

Figure 6–14. Burmopsychops limoae gen. & sp. nov. 6. Habitus photo, dorsal. 7. Forewing venation. 8. Hindwing venation. 9. Photo of head, dorsal. 10. Photo of hindleg tarsus. 11. Photo of proximal part of forewing. 12. Photo of proximal part of hindwing. 13. Photo of female genital segments, ventral. 14. Drawing of female genital segments, ventral. Abbreviation: T—tergite; e— ectoproct; gx—gonocoxite; gs—gonostylus. Scale bars: 6=2mm; 7–8=1 mm; 9, 11–12=0.5mm; 10 =0.05mm; 13–14=0.2 mm.