Ainigmapsychops, Makarkin & Archibald, 2014

Makarkin, Vladimir N. & Archibald, S. Bruce, 2014, An unusual new fossil genus probably belonging to the Psychopsidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America, Zootaxa 3838 (3), pp. 385-391 : 386

Genus Ainigmapsychops gen. nov.

Type and only species. Ainigmapsychops inexspectatus sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Forewing easily separated from those of other species of Psychopsidae by a combination of the following character states: (1) costal space broad proximally, strongly narrowed toward apex [shared with many Mesozoic genera; equally broad in all extant and fossil Cenozoic genera]; (2) costal crossveins absent in preserved portion of costal space [shared with few Mesozoic genera; at least few (often many) crossveins present in all extant and Cenozoic genera]; (3) branches of RP simple before outer gradate series of crossveins [shared with all extant and Cenozoic genera; dichotomously branched in many Mesozoic genera]; (4) CuA strongly pectinate, with numerous branches [dichotomous (or so) or pectinate with few branches in most Mesozoic genera]; (5) CuP pectinate, with few branches [shared with some Mesozoic genera; strongly pectinate with numerous branches in extant genera]; (6) branches of CuA, CuP short [relatively long in Mesozoic genera]; (7) cubital/anal area relatively narrow [shared with all extant genera; broad in Mesozoic genera]; (8) branches of AA1 running at steep angle [low angle in all other genera].

Etymology. Ainigma - (from Greek ainigma, riddle, enigma) + -psychops (a traditional ending of psychopsidlike genera, from Psychopsis , a genus-group name), in reference to the unusual wing venation of the genus. Gender masculine.