Praearchitipula notabilis Kalugina, 1985

Gao, Jiaqi, Shih, Chungkun, Kopeć, Katarzyna, Krzemiński, Wiesław & Ren, Dong, 2015, New species and revisions of Pediciidae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China and Russia, Zootaxa 3964 (1), pp. 77-86 : 79-80

Praearchitipula notabilis Kalugina, 1985

( Fig. 1 A)

Syn. nov.: Praearchitipula lata Kalugina, 1985: 59 , fig. 24.

Remarks. The species P. notabilis ( Fig. 1 A) differs from P. trinervis Kalugina, 1985 ( Fig. 1 C) mainly by proportion of medial veins. In P. notabilis , the vein M1+2 is 2.5 times as long as M1 (vs. 1/2 for P. trinervis ) and dcell is about 1/7 of the length of wing (vs. about 1/8 for P. trinervis ). Both species were described from Kubekovo ( Russia)—Middle Jurassic.

Praearchitipula lata Kalugina, 1985 ( Fig. 1 B), known also from Kubekovo, has been described based on a partially preserved wing. Comparing Figs. 1 A and 1B, we cannot identify significant venational differences between these two fossils. Hence, we suggest treating P. lata as a junior synonym of P. notabilis .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Line drawings, re-drawn from type materials, of A— Praearchitipula notabilis Kalugina, 1985; B— Praearchitipula lata Kalugina, 1985 = P. notabilis, syn. nov.; C— Praearchitipula trinervis Kalugina, 1985. Scale bars = 1 mm.