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Enspeletoma Sun & Rasnitsyn & Wedmann & Zhuang & Shih & Ren & Gao 2024, gen. nov.

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: Enspeletoma Rasnitsyn & Wedmann gen. nov. Type species: Enspeletoma oligocaenica Rasnitsyn & Wedmann gen. et sp. nov. http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C92A60A4- F156-4903-BCCE-07644EE4140C Etymology: The first part of the genus name is derived from the type locality Enspel; the second part* ‘-toma’* refers to the type genus Blasticotoma Klug * 1834. Gender feminine. Included species: Type species only (Fig. 2A–C). Diagnosis: Pterostigma almost as long and wide as cell 1mcu; cell 3rm with veins 2r-rs and 2m-cu opposite each other; vein 2r-m about as long as vein 2r-rs; cell 2mcu relatively short* about as long as cell 1r+2rm. Remarks: Although known from a fragmentary fossil (Fig. 2A)* the new genus demonstrates diagnostic characters of the subfamily Blasticotominae as defined above and in the key below. It differs clearly from other genera and particularly from the only other Cenozoic fossil* Paremphytus ostentus Brues * 1908 (Fig. 2D * E)* in having a huge pterostigma and a very short cell 2mcu (Fig. 2B * C).

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14522741

Authors: Sun, Chenhui, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P., Wedmann, Sonja, Zhuang, Jialiang, Shih, Chungkun, Ren, Dong, Gao

Institutions: Capital Normal University, Natural History Museum, Institute of Paleontology A A Borisyak, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Language: English

Topic: Fossil Insects in Amber

Subfield: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6949485050

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