Karoontina Shcherbakov, 2022

Shcherbakov, D. E., 2022, New Palaeontinidae (Cicadomorpha) from the Triassic of Central Asia: the earliest intimidating eyespots in Hemiptera, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (4), pp. 352-358 : 355

Karoontina Shcherbakov , gen.n.

TYPE SPECIES. Fletcheriana magna Riek, 1976 .

DIAGNOSIS. Forewing triangular oval; costal margin moderately arched, costal area with few oblique veins. Basal cell rather narrow, closed with arculus. R fork narrow, distal (level with M fork), RP nearly straight at nodal line. CuA stem bent at apex of basal cell and arched beyond it. Nodal m-cu bent inwards. CuA2 straight beyond nodal line. Pterostigmal area wide. Forewing dark, postnodal part with rows of small light spots.

COMPOSITION. Monobasic: Karoontina magna ( Riek, 1976) , comb.n.

COMPARISON. Similar to Papiliontina gen.n. in the R stem forked distally, the CuA stem bent at the apex of the narrow basal cell, and the costal margin moderately arched, but in the latter genus the nodal m-cu is feebly arched or nearly straight, and the postnodal part is more triangular, with concave festooned apical margin, without rows of light spots. In Fletcheriana triassica Evans, 1956 , the type species of the genus Fletcheriana ( Dunstaniidae ), the costal area is wider, with more numerous Sc branches, the R is forked much earlier (halfway from basal cell to nodal line, before M fork), the R fork and radial area are much wider, and the RP is bent stepwise at the nodal line.

ETYMOLOGY. From Karoo Supergroup and the genus

Palaeontina ; gender feminine.