Ozymandipteryx Schall, Cao & Husemann, 2025, gen. nov.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: GenusOzymandipteryxgen. nov. Type species. Ozymandipteryx campana sp. nov. Etymology. Named after Ozymandias, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) about the loss of greatness and forgetting of glory by the passing of time. It refers to the state of absent / very reduced metatarsi in the genus, which can be found in the modern-day Tridactylidae genera Ellipes Scudder, 1902 and Xya Latreille, 1809, but is not present in any extant Ripipterygidae. Diagnosis. Absence or almost complete reduction of the metatarsus. Protibiae without dactyls. Mesotibiae not inflated. Cerci one-segmented, cylindrical, with long hairs. Forewing and hindwing present. Metafemur with two small apical protrusions. Dorsal metatibial ridge distally with slight serration. Apical spurs of metatibia much longer (4 ×) than subapical spurs.
Authors: Schall, Ole-Kristian Odin, Cao, Chengquan, Husemann, Martin
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949801747
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