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Pseudomesoptilus Guan & Prokop & Roques & Lapeyrie & Nel 2016
Description
Genus Pseudomesoptilus nov.
Etymology: To indicate it was originally included into the genus Mesoptilus.
Type species: Mesoptilus sellardsi Lameere, 1917; monotypic, see below.
Diagnosis.—Presence of two main veins (RP and MA?) emerging separately from radius; RP emerging distal of mid part of wing, instead of in the basal third or fourth; absence of brace or approximation between RP and median vein or between median vein and CuA.
Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Stephanian, Carboniferous (= Gzhelian, Upper Pennsylvanian), France.
Notes
Published as part of Guan, Zhaoying, Prokop, Jakub, Roques, Patrick, Lapeyrie, Jean & Nel, André, 2016, Revision of the enigmatic insect family Anthracoptilidae enlightens the evolution of Palaeozoic stem-dictyopterans, pp. 71-87 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.4202/app.00051.2014, http://zenodo.org/record/10980713
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anthracoptilidae
- Genus
- Pseudomesoptilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Paoliida
- Scientific name authorship
- Guan & Prokop & Roques & Lapeyrie & Nel
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudomesoptilus Guan, 2016 sec. Guan, Prokop, Roques, Lapeyrie & Nel, 2016
References
- Lameere, A. 1917. Revision sommaire des Insectes fossiles du Stephanien de Commentry. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 23: 141 - 200.