Irajanarkemina rodendorfi ( Pinto & Ornellas, 1978 ) Martins-Neto & Gallego & Brauckmann & Cruz, 2007

Martins-Neto, R. G., Gallego, O. F., Brauckmann, C. & Cruz, J. L., 2007, A review of the South American Palaeozoic entomofauna Part I: the Ischnoneuroidea and Cacurgoidea, with description of new taxa, African Invertebrates 48 (1), pp. 87-101 : 91-93

Irajanarkemina rodendorfi ( Pinto & Ornellas, 1978) , comb. n.

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Narkemina rodendorfi: Pinto & Ornellas 1978: 311 , pl. I, figs 4, 5; pl. II, figs 2, 3 (holotype MP-I-5283a, b;

São Paulo, Upper Carboniferous ; in UFRGS, Brazil; studied); Storozhenko 1998: 71, fig. 114 .

Narkemina rohdendorfi: Pinto 1995: 47 (unjustified emendation); Pinto & Adami-Rodrigues 1999: 122

(unjustified emendation).

Remarks: In the original description, Pinto and Ornellas (1978) considered the holotype specimen as a hind wing. The absence of a typical anal fan as known from typical hind wings of other species of the Proedischiidae leads us to regard it more likely as a fore wing, however.

Pinto and Ornellas (1978) originally spelled the specific name “ rodendorfi ” which is possible if it is derived directly from the Russian (Cyrillic) spelling. Later the authors changed it to “ rohdendorfi ”, the spelling which B.B. Rohdendorf himself preferred to use in transliterations of his name. According to Article 32.5.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), incorrect transliteration is not an inadvertent error and therefore does not require correction.

Genus Velizphlebia Martins-Neto, Gallego & Brauckmann , gen. n.

Etymology: After the Bajo de Véliz locality, Argentina, and phlebia = vein (latinized form of Greek phleps). Gender feminine.

Type species: Velizphlebia cruz i sp. n., designated here.

Diagnosis: Forewing relatively wide. Very wide and reticulate costal space and very basal MA fork. ScP distally fused with RA. Origin of RP at mid-length of the wing and far from origin of MP. MP+CuA strongly convergent to MA. Origin of CuP not directly from distal part of CuA.

Discussion. Similar to Narkemina and Irajanarkemina in having ScP distally fused with RA and MP+CuA strongly convergent to MA; differing however in having the origin of RP relatively far from the wing apex (although also far from the origin of MP) and the origin of CuP not directly from the distal part of CuA. Additionally the very wide and reticulate costal space and very basal MA fork are features completely different from the rest of the Proedischiidae .

Figures

Fig. 2. Irajanarkemina rodendorfi, main venational pattern, schematic drawing. CuA, CuP, anterior and posterior cubitus; MA, MP, anterior and posterior media; RA, RP, anterior and posterior radius; ScA, ScP, anterior and posterior subcosta; r–m, supporting cross vein radius–media; ma–mp, supporting cross vein anterior–posterior media.