Fiaponeura, 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 : 323-324

Genus Fiaponeura gen. nov. ( Figs 1–5 )

Fiaponeura Lu, Zhang & Liu, 2016: 2 . nom. invalid. Type species: Fiaponeura penghiani Lu, Zhang & Liu, 2016: 3 . nom. invalid.

Diagnosis. Medium-sized lacewings (forewing length about 11.59 mm). Head ( Fig. 1 ) orthognathous, feebly domed dorsally. Compound eye with maximum diameter nearly equal in length to distance between inner margins of eyes. Ocelli absent. Antenna filiform, densely hairy, at least longer than length of head plus prothorax. Mouthparts composed of a bifid labrum, reduced mandibles, and conspicuously elongated maxillae and labium; maxilla with a long blade-like lobe putatively composed of galea or galea + lacinia, about 2/3 the length of maxillary palp; labium with elongated, distally bifid ligula, which is about 2/3 the length of labial palp. Pronotum about twice as long as wide, slightly narrower than head. Legs slender, each leg with a tibial spur. Wings broad, densely veined, with transversely band-like dark markings. Forewing subtriangular, with round distal margin; trichosores present on almost entire wing margin; a proximal nygma present; costal space narrow at base but distinctly broadened at middle, with a short simple humeral veinlet slightly bent to wing base, and with simple and forked costal crossveins, among which no interlink veinlet is present; subcostal space about 1/4 as wide as costal space at middle; four or five ORBs and MA diverging from R; MA dichotomously branched at middle; MP initially branched near wing base, with both main branches dichotomously branched; CuA distally pectinately branched, CuP dichotomously branched from midlength; a short, oblique mp-cua crossvein present; A1 dichotomously branched; A2 short, but pectinately branched; A3 bifurcated; two gradate series of crossveins proximad outer gradate series. Hindwing much narrower than forewing, ovoid, but strongly narrowed proximad; trichosores present along margin of distal half; a median nygma present between Rs and MA; Sc and R fused distally; single Rs+MA separating from R near wing base; base of MA oblique and slightly sinuate; MP probably dichotomously branched; CuA and CuP both distally pectinately branched; A1 straight with a marginal fork; A2 and A3 simple.

Etymology. The generic epithet is a combination of Fiap (FIAP = The Inter-Asian Philatelic Federation, which has long supported the author WZ’s work on philately) and neural (plural form of the Ancient Greek noun neuron, nerve, vein, and a traditional ending of Neuroptera-like genera). Gender feminine.

Remarks. See Lu et al. (2016).

Figures

Figure 1–5. Fiaponeura penghiani gen. & sp. nov., holotype male. 1. Habitus photo, dorsal. 2. Habitus drawing. 3. Photo of proximal part of forewing. 4. Photo of proximal part of hindwing. 5. Photo of foreleg tarsus. Scale bars: 1 =2 mm; 2 = 2.5 mm; 3 =0.5mm; 4=0.2mm; 5 =0.05mm.