Perspicuusoperla, Chen, 2022

Chen, Zhi-Teng, 2022, Bizarre egg structure uncovers a new family of Plecoptera (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, Fossil Record 25 (1), pp. 75-82 : 75

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.81862
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C905FCB0-7880-4990-931D-8BCC98CD85C3
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D44F3A06-90E9-49FC-A85C-5F35D2C36C2D
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:D44F3A06-90E9-49FC-A85C-5F35D2C36C2D
treatment provided by	by Pensoft
scientific name	Perspicuusoperla
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Perspicuusoperla gen. nov.

Type species.

Perspicuusoperla lata gen. et sp. nov.

Etymology.

The genus name is a combination of the words Perspicuuso and perla ; the first word is derived from Latin ‘perspicuus’, meaning ‘transparent’ and refers to the transparent egg; the second word refers to the stonefly genus Perla Geoffroy, 1762.

Diagnosis.

By monotypy, as for the type species.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Plecoptera
SubOrder	Arctoperlaria
Family	Noctuidae

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