Oligoptilomera, Nel & Mennecart & Spasojevic & Viertler & Maridet & Costeur & Garrouste & Coster, 2023

Nel, André, Mennecart, Bastien, Spasojevic, Tamara, Viertler, Alexandra, Maridet, Olivier, Costeur, Loïc, Garrouste, Romain & Coster, Pauline, 2023, The first fossil representative of the water strider subfamily Ptilomerinae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) in the Oligocene paleolake of Murs (southern France) with some palaeoecological considerations, European Journal of Taxonomy 888, pp. 124-136 : 128

Oligoptilomera gen. nov.

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Type species

Oligoptilomera luberonensis gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis

Fore tarsus only slightly shorter than fore tibia; hind femur probably as long as mid one; first antennomere shorter than three following antennomeres together; antenna shorter than body; abdomen slightly shorter than thorax; no lateral wing of suranal plate; proctiger not exposed; a very large first genital segment; second genital segment well visible.

Etymology

Named after the Oligocene period and the extant genus name ‘ Ptilomera ’.