Palaeoglaesum Wagner, gen. nov.

Type species. Nemopalpus quadrispiculatus Stebner, Solórzano-Kraemer, Ibáñez-Bernal & Wagner 2015, by present designation.

Etymology. The name of the new genus is composed of the Greek word for old (palaeo) and a latin phrase for amber (glaesum).

Species included. P. quadrispiculatum (Stebner et al., 2015) comb. nov., P. muelleri sp. n., P. bisulcum sp. n., P. notandum sp. n., P. velteni (Wagner, 2012) comb. nov.

Diagnosis. Small Bruchomyiinae, wing length less than 2.5 mm, head in dorsal view oval, eyes round; antenna with short scape, pedicel little longer than scape, and 14 tubular flagellomeres; palpus 4-segmented. Wing with Sc terminating in C or R1, usually with sc-r or sc-c crossvein; R2+3 about three times longer than R2; radial fork distal of medial fork; r-m crossvein near fork R4/5; m-cu near fork M3/4; second basal cell about half as long as first basal cell. CuP curved towards CuA. Genitalia inverted probably by segments 8 and 9, gonocoxites tubular almost straight, parameres sometimes long, gonostyli elongate simple or bilobed; epandrium approximately rectangular often two times longer than wide, flat, distally narrower; aedeagus with remarkable elongate Y-shaped distiphallus sclerite; proctiger small, well sclerotized, not flexible, cerci roundish to oval.