Leptoserphites Rasnitsyn & Azar, 2022

RASNITSYN, ALEXANDR P., MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAALOUF, RAMY & AZAR, DANY, 2022, New Serphitidae and Gallorommatidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Microprocta) in the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber, Palaeoentomology 5 (2), pp. 120-136 : 123-124

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6E6BDD8A-D857-4953-988B-D0709AC5B48F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530441

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/735BFB32-0025-D976-FCA2-E7B1FE9B0BE7

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Plazi

scientific name

Leptoserphites Rasnitsyn & Azar
status

gen. nov.

Genus Leptoserphites Rasnitsyn & Azar , gen. nov.

Type species. Leptoserphites pabloi sp. nov.; by present designation.

Other species. Leptoserphites iriae sp. nov.

Etymology. The genus name is from Greek λεπτός = leptos means thin + the genus name Serphites .

Diagnosis. Antenna 11–12-segmented, with no club defined. Body comparatively narrow, with mesosoma twice as long as high, forewing with only R, 2r-rs and pterostigma tubular, 2r-rs at least half as long as pterostigma high, no R and RS present as nebulous vein distal of pterostigma and 2r-rs, respectively.

Remarks. The new genus is attributed to Serphitidae and particularly to Supraserphitinae based on antenna 11–12-segmented (vs. 14-segmented in Archaeoserphitidae and less than 11-segmented in Serphitinae and Microserphitinae ). It differs from the type and only supraserphitine genus Supraserphites Rasnitsyn & Öhm-Kühnle, 2019 in having stature narrower, basal flagellomere smallest in 12-segmented antenna (putatively fused with the next one in 11-segmented ones), forewing with RS&M nebulose (vs. tubular) and R and RS lost as colored veins distal of pterostigma and 2r-rs (vs. tubular or nebulous).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Serphitidae

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