Ponomarenkoa Olmi, 2010

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20. Genus Ponomarenkoa Olmi, 2010

Laberites Ponomarenko 1988a: 107 (type species not designated, unvalid according to article 13.3 of ICZN, 1999); Olmi 1991: 393: Olmi & Bechly 2001: 57.

Ponomarenkoa Olmi 2010: 31 (new name for Laberites Ponomarenko, 1988 ).

Type species. Ponomarenkoa polonica ( Ponomarenko, 1988) (= Laberites polonicus Ponomarenko, 1988 ), by original designation.

Diagnosis. Male ( Plate 137A–C ): fully winged; occipital carina complete; antennae 10-segmented; fore wing with three cells enclosed by pigmented veins (costal, median and submedian), with metacarpus shorter than pterostigma;; tibial spurs 1/2/2. Female: unknown.

Distribution. Only known from Baltic and Burmese amber.

Hosts. Unknown.

World species. Two species are known, one in the Oriental region.

Remarks. Olmi (1991) described the new subfamily Laberitinae , based on Laberites Ponomarenko, 1988 . At description time, this genus included two species, polonicus Ponomarenko, 1988 ,(from Baltic amber) and antiquus ( Ponomarenko, 1981 ) (from Taimyr amber). Ponomarenko however did not want to describe really a new genus; for this reason, she did not designate a Type species. Ponomarenko in fact simply used a collective name to include the two above species considered of uncertain generic position. Olmi (1991) did not understand that Laberites was a collective name and not a true genus, so that, after separation of antiquus, considered belonging to Dryinus , designated polonicus as type species and described a new subfamily ( Laberitinae ) based on Laberites . Afterwards, however, Olmi & Bechly (2001) considered unvalid Laberites because Ponomarenko did not designate a type species (Art. 13.3 of ICZN 1999). In addition, Laberites is unvalid, because it is only a collective name including fossils (Art. 20 of ICZN 1999). Because of the unavailability of Laberites , a new name, Ponomarenkoa , was proposed ( Olmi, 2010). Of course, the subfamily based on Ponomarenkoa had to be named Ponomarenkoinae .

Figures

PLATE 137. Ponomarenkoa ellenbergeri sp. nov. A. Holotype. Length 2.7 mm. B. Paratype. Length 2.8 mm. C. Head in ventral view, holotype.