Puri, Cardoso-Costa, Gil, Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva De & Ferreira-Jr, Nelson, 2013

Cardoso-Costa, Gil, Azevêdo, Carlos Augusto Silva De & Ferreira-Jr, Nelson, 2013, New genus and new species of Chauliodinae (Insecta: Megaloptera: Corydalidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 3613 (4), pp. 391-399 : 392

Puri gen. nov.

Type species. Puri aleca sp. nov. Cardoso-Costa, Azevedo & Ferreira-Jr

Generic characters. Male: antennae subserrate, short, less than ½ length of forewing; wings alternating dark and pale venation; forewings with crossvein between 1A and 2A placed between footstalks of 1A and 2A; hindwings with basal r-m crossvein reconnected to M by an additional short branch; dorsally, ninth tergum anteriorly truncate and, laterally, ventral margin acutely produced; ninth sternum with membranous apical process; proximal margin of tenth tergum vertical; laterally tenth gonocoxite with bifurcation indistinct; lateral lobes connected by a broad and feebly sclerotized plate.

Etymology. This new genus is named in honor of the native Indian tribe “ Puri ” that inhabited the region of Mantiqueira Mountain Range of southeastern Brazil.

Taxonomic notes. In the male, the short antennae and dorsally the proximal inner portion of tenth tergum strongly sclerotized allies Puri with Anachauliodes Kimmins , Chauliodes , Ctenochauliodes Weele , Neochauliodes Weele , Nigronia and Sinochauliodes Liu & Yang. However the new genus can be distinguished from these Nearctic and Oriental genera by the ninth tergum anteriorly truncate. This latter characteristic allies Puri to the fishfly genera Archichauliodes , Platychauliodes Esben-Petersen , Madachauliodes Paulian , Dysmicohermes , Orohermes , Neohermes , Protochauliodes , Nothochauliodes and Taeniochauliodes Esben-Petersen. The 2A sessile in forewing and the broad plate between lateral lobes allies Puri to Ctenochauliodes , but the tenth gonocoxite is not bifuricate and the subserrate antennae of the male differentiate the new genus.