Palleptocerus grimaldii, WICHARD & MÜLLER, 2022

WICHARD, WILFRIED & MÜLLER, PATRICK, 2022, Palleptoceridae fam. nov., an extinct leptoceroid family in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Insecta, Trichoptera), Palaeoentomology 5 (5), pp. 468-474 : 469-470

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B3D18635-38AD-496E-B681-E4CCC5CEE97B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7333749

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F656719-FF80-FFC9-FCDC-2B03051A584A

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scientific name

Palleptocerus grimaldii
status

sp. nov.

Palleptocerus grimaldii sp. nov.

( Figs 1–4 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 )

Type material. Male holotype and female paratype 1 are next to each other in small amber ( Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 , 3A, 3B View FIGURE 3 ): ZFMK-TRI000831. Female paratype 2: ZFMKTRI000832 ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Male paratype: ZFMK-TRI000833 ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ).

Bodies partially well preserved; forewings in dorsal view visible, hind wings partially covered by forewings. Long antennae incomplete in length. Head, thorax and abdomen can partially show signs of decomposition. Fore and hind wing venations largely visible, but crossveins are not or often barely visible, which is probably due to the preservation in amber.

In dorsal and lateral views, the genitalia of males and females are usually obscured by the saddle-roofed and moderately transparent wings. In ventral view, the genitalia are more visible when not clouded by unfavourable preservation in amber. In male genitalia, only the anterior paired inferior appendages are often clearly visible ventrally for this reason.

Etymology. The new species is dedicated in honor of David Grimaldi on his 65 th birthday.

Diagnosis. As for the genus.

Description. Head: Laterally protruded compound eyes; the outer eye distance is 0.7 mm. Ocelli not present. Filiform antennae longer than forewings - embedded in amber and truncate, therefore incomplete in length; in paratype male ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ) antennae twice as long as forewings, subsequently truncated. Scapus conically thickened; flagellomeres cylindrical, elongate. In both sexes, five-segmented maxillary palps present, palp segment lengths in a row: about 0.1, 0.2, 0.2, 0.12, 0.3 mm (female: Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ; male: Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 inset); 5 th segment flexible, not annulated. Labial palps three-segmented, terminal segment longest.

Thorax: Mesoscutum ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ) distinct, sclerotized, running longitudinally, with dark marginal ridges on both sides. Two bands with setiferous punctures along dorsal side of mesoscutum not completely visible, but as far as visible, some setae appear in row, visible along right band ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 Inset).

Tibial spurs: 2/4/4, metatibia, each with a pair of apical and preapical spurs ( Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 )

Wings: The forewings about 4.5 mm long in males and 5.0 mm long in females. Sexual dimorphism is more pronounced in the venation ( Fig. 2B, 2C View FIGURE 2 ): forks III present in females, males without them. In both sexes Sc and R 1 straight running parallel to the wing margin. R 2 + R 3 forming fork I present and R 4+5 simple, discoidal cells absent. Crossvein r-m incompletely indicated. In male M two-branched in M 1+2 and M 3+4; in female M threebranched, M 1 + M 2 forming fork III and M 3+4 simple. Cu 1 two-branched in Cu 1a and Cu 1b forming fork V. Crossvein m-cu closing the long thyridial cell. In male venation Cu 2 and A 1+2+3 running parallel and reaching the wing margin together at arculus. Crossvein between Cu 1b and Cu 2 reaching arculus. In female Cu 2 and A 1+2+3 running parallel but reaching the wing margin at different distance. In both sexes simplified hind wing venation, forks I, II, III, IV absent, exclusively fork V present ( Fig. 2D View FIGURE 2 ), crossveins absent.

Genitalia: Access and visibility of the male and female genital structures are difficult in amber. In the female, a pair of dorsal setose lobes visible ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 inset, 4A inset); details of the gonopod plate not visible. In ventral view, the male genitalia equipped with a pair of inferior appendages ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ), each consisting of a dark, rod-shaped coxopodite and an apically attached harpago that is shorter and lighter in color than the coxopodite and tapers and curves slightly toward the genital midline. As far as visible, a rod-shaped appendage nearly as long as the coxopodite tentatively interpreted as a meso-dorsal appendage of tergum 10.

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