Osmylopsychoides, 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 : 118-119

Genus Osmylopsychoides gen. nov.

Type and only species. Osmylopsychoides anteromedialis sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Forewing: costal space broad; most branches of Rs deeply forked; MA deeply forked three times; MP space markedly dilated proximally; MP1, MP2 pectinate; most branches of CuA deeply forked.

Etymology. From Osmylopsychops , a genus-group name, and the Latin suffix— oides derived from the Greek eidos, appearance, resemblance, in reference to similarity of the venation of the new genus to that of the genus Osmylopsychops . Gender masculine.

Remarks. The forewing venation of the new genus is similar to that of those osmylopsychopid genera from the Middle Jurassic of China whose Rs branches are deeply forked, especially Daopsychops Peng et al., 2015 and Eupypsychops Peng et al., 2015. It differs from these genera by MP being forked more proximally, at the level of primary branching of CuP (in the forewings of Daopsychops and Eupypsychops, MP is forked much distad the primary branching of CuP).