Succinoraphidia Aspöck & Aspöck, 2004

Perkovsky, Evgeny E. & Makarkin, Vladimir N., 2019, A new species of Succinoraphidia Aspöck & Aspöck, 2004 (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae) from the late Eocene Rovno amber, with venation characteristics of the genus, Zootaxa 4576 (3), pp. 570-580 : 571

Genus Succinoraphidia Aspöck & Aspöck, 2004

Type species. Succinoraphidia exhibens Aspöck & Aspöck, 2004 , by original designation.

Diagnosis based on wing venation. In fore- and hind wings, [1] pterostigma elongate with one incorporated branch (veinlet) of RA; [2] RA distad pterostigma not forked; [3] RP distad crossvein 3ra-rp not forked; [4] crossvein 3ra-rp located distad pterostigma. In hind wing, [5] crossvein 1r-m long, longitudinal; [6] AA1 and CuP fully separate; [7] crossvein between AA1+2 and AA3 present.

Species included. Three species from the late Eocene of Europe: S. exhibens and S. baltica ( Carpenter, 1957) , comb. nov. (both from Baltic amber); S. radioni sp. nov. from Rovno amber.

Comments. The genus Succinoraphidia differs from other genera of the family by male genitalia in which the gonapophyses 9 are completely free and bear a subapical hook; these character states are found in S. exhibens ( Aspöck & Aspöck 2004) . However, other known specimens (i.e., the holotypes of S. baltica and S. radioni sp. nov., and two not reported specimens of this genus from Baltic amber) are represented by females. Nevertheless, the venation of all these specimens is so similar that their assignment to the same genus is undoubted. In particular, their wings possess some character states not occurring in other genera of Raphidiidae [characters 3, 6, 7].