Iphigensia storozhenkoi Khramov, 2025

Khramov, Alexander V., 2025, A new highly unusual genus of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 199-203 : 200-201

Iphigensia storozhenkoi Khramov , gen. et sp. nov.

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Types. Holotype: PIN № 2997/2754, an almost complete forewing, only the positive imprint preserved.

Type locality and horizon. Kazakhstan, Turkistan region , 3 km to the south-west from Aktas village , Karatau locality, Karabastau formation, Upper Jurassic .

Description ( Fig. 1 ). Forewing elongate, 29 mm long, 9 mm wide (as preserved), with five transverse dark stripes and dark-colored apex, costal space narrow, gradually attenuated towards wing base with dense sinuous subcostal veinlets, covered with numerous hairs, especially dense distad to fusion of Sc and RA, costal veinlets mostly unforked, bent toward wing apex, densely spaced, crossveins scarce and irregularly scattered, RP with 48 branches, first 15 of them fused into Crs, Crs extending to two thirds of wing length, running parallel to M and CuA, M bifurcates near the wing base, proximad to the separation of RP1 from RP, MA with few branches, MP with at least 7 pectinate branches, CuA with more than 16 branches, CuP with at least 11 branches, CuP connected with stem of CuA by long crossveins, anal veins strongly reduced, trichosors not discernible.

Etymology. The species is named in honour of the Russian entomologist Sergey Yu. Storozhenko.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The holotype of Iphigensia storozhenkoi gen. et sp. nov. (Nymphidae), PIN № 2997/2754, forewing. Scale bar: 5.0 mm.