Ansoberotha, Yang, Qiang, Shi, Chaofan & Ren, Dong, 2019

Yang, Qiang, Shi, Chaofan & Ren, Dong, 2019, A new genus and species of berothids (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Late Cretaceous Myanmar amber, ZooKeys 864, pp. 99-109 : 101

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.864.35271

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9F207A95-C905-444F-BB5D-19F69E9C7549

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ansoberotha
status

gen. nov.

Genus Ansoberotha gen. nov.

Type (and only) species.

Ansoberotha jiewenae gen. et sp. nov.

Etymology.

The generic name is a combination of the Latin ansa (meaning haft, handle), and Berotha , the type genus of the family, in reference to the long scapus. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis.

Antenna long, more than 6.6 mm, longer than body or forewings; scape elongate, ca. 0.64 mm, almost 12 times as long as wide; flagellum with about 100 flagellomeres. Pronotum elongate, about three times as long as wide. Forewing with one basal sc-r and four ra-rp, M forked distal to the separation of RP; MP, CuA pectinately branched. Hind wing with one r-m between RP stem and MA; one oblique cua-cup between CuA stem and distal branch of CuP.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Neuroptera

Family

Berothidae