Burmophilopota wintertoni, Feng & Zhuang & Shih & Ren & Wang, 2024

Feng, Qi, Zhuang, Jialiang, Shih, Chungkun, Ren, Dong & Wang, Yongjie, 2024, The oldest fossil record of Philopotinae (Diptera: Acroceridae) from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 435-443 : 436-438

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.8

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13618995

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FB30CE5B-FCDD-4B69-BEA0-11835FA6BB15

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Burmophilopota wintertoni
status

sp. nov.

Burmophilopota wintertoni sp. nov. ( Figures 1–2 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 )

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Material. Holotype, CNU-DIP-MA2015116 ( Figure 1A, B View FIGURE 1 ), male, preserved as a complete individual.

Etymology. The species name is a patronym for Dr. Shaun L. Winterton, in honor of his remarkable contributions to the research of Diptera .

Locality and horizon. Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, northern Myanmar. mid-Cretaceous Cenomanian period, 98.79 ± 0.62 Ma.

Diagnosis. As for the genus.

Description. Body length 11.58 mm, wing length 5.79 mm.

Head: narrower than thorax, spherical. Eyes large, occupying most portion of head capsule; eyes bare and holoptic. Antenna located at mesal of eyes ( Figure 1C View FIGURE 1 ); scape partly hidden by eyes ( Figure 1C View FIGURE 1 ); flagellum with long and two-segmented aristalike stylus ( Figure 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Mouthparts much shorter than head; labellum fleshy ( Figure 1E View FIGURE 1 ); maxillary palpus absent.

Thorax: bare; postpronotal lobe enlarged and fused to single sclerite; postsutural scutum strongly arched and distinctively hump-backed; anepisternum large; katepisternum well-developed; subscutellum bare ( Figure 2A, B View FIGURE 2 ).

Wing: slender, slightly longer than length of abdomen; upper calypter present; lower calypter large, oval; costa circumambient; crossvein h present; Sc long, ending beyond mid-position of costal margin; R 1 long, sinuous, much departing from Sc at wing margin; opening of cell r 1 about 2.5 times as wide as cell sc; Rs short; R 2+3 long, ending before wing apex; R 4+5 with long stalk; R 4 slightly sinuous apically, terminating at wing apex; R 5 ending distinctly beyond wing apex; cell d long; crossvein r-m2 absent; M 1 subparallel to R 5, two times as long as length of M 2; M 3 and M 4 coalescent distally into short petiole; CuP and CuA separate to wing margin; alula well-developed ( Figure 2C–F View FIGURE 2 ).

Legs: hind legs slightly longer than fore- and mid-legs; femur, smooth, equal to length of tibia; tibia with dense short hairs; hind tibia thickened apically; spurs of tibia absent; first tarsus elongated; pretarsus falciform, pulvilli piniform, slightly shorter than claws ( Figure 2G, H View FIGURE 2 ).

Abdomen: stout and bare, shorter than length of wing; terminal position not visible.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Acroceridae

Genus

Burmophilopota

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