Parelcana Handlirsch, 1906

Tian, He, Gu, Jun-Jie, Yin, Xiang Chu & Ren, Dong, 2019, The first Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea) from the Daohugou fossil bed of northeastern China, ZooKeys 897, pp. 19-28 : 19

Genus Parelcana Handlirsch, 1906

Type species.

Parelcana tenuis Handlirsch, 1906.

Composition.

Parelcana tenuis Handlirsch, 1906 (Jurassic, Dobbertin, Germany), P. anglicana Handlirsch, 1939 (Jurassic, Binton, UK), probably P. dubia Handlirsch, 1939 (Jurassic, Gloucester, UK) and Parelcana pulchmacula sp. nov. ( Handlirsch 1939; Cigliano et al. 2019).

Revised diagnosis.

ScP with numerous branches ending at the anterior margin; M with 3 branches before RP fused with MA1; short CuA; CuPaβ, CuPb, and AA1 detached from each other.

Comments.

All species of genus Parelcana are based on forewing structure. The forewing of Parelcana differs from other genera in Archelcaninae by the presence of 3 branches of M before RP fuses with MA1, and presence a very short and nearly vertical CuA.