Psychostoechotes, Khramov, Alexander V. & Makarkin, Vladimir N., 2015

Khramov, Alexander V. & Makarkin, Vladimir N., 2015, New fossil Osmylopsychopidae (Neuroptera) from the Early / Middle Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Zootaxa 4059 (1), pp. 115-132 : 120-121

Genus Psychostoechotes gen. nov.

Type and only species. Psychostoechotes undulatus sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Forewing broad; costal space relatively narrow; no costal crossveins in distal part of costal space; branches of Rs shallowly forked; CuP with several branches (three or four); outer, hind margins undulate; outer gradate series of crossveins in posterior part of radial space incomplete.

Etymology. Psycho- (from Psychopsidae ), and - stoechotes (from Polystoechotes , a genus-group name), in reference to superficial similarity to the forewings of Psychopsidae and Polystoechotidae . Gender masculine.

Remarks. The new genus easily differs from other osmylopsychopid genera with undulate wing margin (i.e., Undulopsychopsis and Daopsychops Peng et al., 2015: Peng et al. 2011, 2015) by all branches of Rs shallowly forked (mostly once forked). In these and other genera of Osmylopsychopidae most branches of Rs are dichotomously branched, deeply or only distally.