Taiophlebia niloriclasodae Martins-Neto, 2007

Martins-Neto, R. G., Gallego, O. F., Brauckmann, C. & Cruz, J. L., 2007, A review of the South American Palaeozoic entomofauna Part I: the Ischnoneuroidea and Cacurgoidea, with description of new taxa, African Invertebrates 48 (1), pp. 87-101 : 97

Taiophlebia niloriclasodae Martins-Neto , sp. n.

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Etymology: Anagram derived from Nilson, Lorelai, Rita, Claus, Sonis, and Daiana, dynamic students of Geosciences Department, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos– UNISINOS, leadered by Dr Tania Lindner Dutra, the team that collected the holotype. Description: Fore wing 104 mm long and 34 mm wide, as preserved, with straight costal margin and slightly acuminate apex. Subcostal area notably wide close the base, progressively narrowing toward the apex. ScA well-defined with numerous secondary veinlets and anastomosed pattern of cross-veins. ScP long with at least two strong secondary branches and several, relatively long, distally dichotomous veinlets, unbranched. RP origin at 1/5 of wing base. RP slightly sigmoid, with five secondary branches. MA long, slightly sigmoid, three-branched. MP+CuA origin little before RP origin level with at least eight terminal branches, clade-like. CuP two-branched with CuP1 being the smallest, converging to MP+CuA, fusing distally; CuP partially preserved, oblique to anal margin, reaching it at about 1/3 of wing base. AP1 fuses to AP2 close to the wing base, Y-shaped.AP1+2 parallel to CuP2. Intense pattern of crossveins forming mosaics of heterogeneous cells in the whole preserved wing. No ornamentation pattern.

Holotype: BRAZIL: Santa Catarina State: Taió municipality; Upper Carboniferous, Itararé Subgroup , upper part of the Rio do Sul Formation. Housed at Geosciences Department , UNISINOS, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Fig. 10. Taiophlebia niloriclasodae, reconstructed forewing (after Dutra et al. in press). Vein designations: see Fig. 2.