Palaeoglaesum Wagner

Wagner, Rüdiger, 2017, Synopsis of extinct Bruchomyiinae (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Burmese, Baltic and Dominican amber, with descriptions of new genera and species, Zootaxa 4320 (1), pp. 100-120 : 112

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.