Electroprojapyx, Sánchez-García & Sendra & Davis & Grimaldi, 2023

Sánchez-García, Alba, Sendra, Alberto, Davis, Steven & Grimaldi, David A., 2023, Fossil diversity in ‘ dawn’ hexapods (Diplura: Projapygoidea), with direct evidence for being chemically predaceous in the Cretaceous, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (3), pp. 847-870 : 850

ELECTROPROJAPYX GEN. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: 3496E6E3-6D13-4753-8808-BF7DA8CC3B2D

Etymology: The generic name is a combination of the Latin electro (meaning, ‘amber’), and Projapyx Cook, 1899 , type genus of the family. The gender of the name is masculine.

Type species: Electroprojapyx alchemicus sp. nov. by monotypy.

Diagnosis: The new genus is readily distinguished from all other genera of Projapygidae by the following combination of characters: body elongate; antenna elongate, 0.5× length of body, slightly tapered, with 27 antennomeres, moniliform, without secondary sexual characters on antennomeres II and III, lacking pyriform sensillum on antennomere VII; legs elongate and slender, metathoracic leg distinctly longer than others; tibiae with calcars; claws subequal; cercus short and slender (not compacted), 0.1× length of body, with at least seven segments plus the infundibuliform complex, without secondary sexual characters.