Elektrithone, Makarkin, Vladimir N., Wedmann, Sonja & Weiterschan, Thomas, 2014

Makarkin, Vladimir N., Wedmann, Sonja & Weiterschan, Thomas, 2014, First record of the family Ithonidae (Neuroptera) from Baltic amber, Zootaxa 3796 (2), pp. 385-393 : 388

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.2.10

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7C44DBFD-EF50-43BD-902F-FA87DB3B3B7A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5623790

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/056A121F-FF9E-8837-FF53-FEBB1D7148F7

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Plazi

scientific name

Elektrithone
status

gen. nov.

Genus Elektrithone View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species. Elektrithone expectata sp. nov.

Diagnosis. The new genus is characterized by a combination of the following forewing features: costal space broad; ScA well developed; majority of subcostal veinlets with only very shallow forks; one subcostal crossvein in proximal part of wing; radial crossveins arranged in two gradate series; CuP, AA1 very short; anal area strongly reduced; distal nygma absent.

Etymology. From the Greek elektro [ήλεκτρο], amber, and Ithone , a genus-group name, in reference to the occurrence of the genus in Baltic amber. Gender feminine.

Species included. Type species only.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Ithonidae

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