Araripus Carmo and Sampronha, 2022

do Carmo, Daniel Dias Dornelas, Sampronha, Stephanie, Santos, Charles Morphy D. & Ribeiro, Guilherme Cunha, 2022, Cretaceous Horse flies and their phylogenetic significance (Diptera: Tabanidae), Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 80, pp. 295-307 : 295

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e86673
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BE39D533-FE52-42B7-870A-5D3B0764D4E2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/58FB3D34-B53E-4735-8948-27371BB740DA
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:58FB3D34-B53E-4735-8948-27371BB740DA
treatment provided by	Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny by Pensoft
scientific name	Araripus Carmo and Sampronha
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Araripus Carmo and Sampronha gen. nov.

Type species.

Araripus crassitibialis sp.nov.

Diagnosis.

Large insects (length = 23.5 mm); head narrower than thorax; fore tibia swelled; frons slightly divergent at vertex and apparently not very broad; basal callus absent, but callosity visible at the dorsal half of frons; R4 strongly sinuous at apex, parallel to R2+3 extremity; angle between R4 and R5 less than 90°; vein r-m inclined anteriorly; abdomen very long, nearly twice the thorax length.

Etymology.

From “Araripe”, the name of the sedimentary basin to which the Crato Formation belongs.

Comments.

The new genus differs from other Cretaceous Tabanidae by the swelled tibia, the R4 strongly curved to the wing base, and the unusually long abdomen.