Panorpodes hageni (Carpenter, 1954)

Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka & Krzemiński, Wiesław, 2013, Family Panorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Baltic amber (upper Eocene): new species, redescription and palaeogeographic remarks of relict scorpionflies, Zootaxa 3636 (3), pp. 489-499 : 491-493

Panorpodes hageni (Carpenter, 1954)

( Figs. 7–8 )

Panorpodes hageni Carpenter 1954: 33 –34

Material examined. Photographs of holotype housed in Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Diagnosis. Separated from other species from Baltic amber by dark-colored wings with four transparent narrow bands compared to transparent wings of P. brevicauda and wings with dark, narrow and broken bands of P. weitschati sp. nov.

Redescription. Forewings ( Fig. 8 ) dark with four narrow, transparent bands, most distal band irregular, resembling spots merged together; second and third bands wider than others and most regular, extending from costa to posterior margin; most basal band not reaching posterior margin, extending from costa to slightly beyond vein Cu2; wing venation as in P. brevicauda , with the exception of crossveins, which are very delicate and poorly visible; anal region invisible. Hind wings dark with pattern of transparent bands similar to forewing.

Remarks. The holotype was redescribed from photographs. The illustrations provided in this paper are the first for this species. The majority of the hind wing area is covered by the fore wings and reconstruction of the hind wing venation is impossible, especially without the specimen at hand.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Panorpodes hageni, holotype.

FIGURE 8. Panorpodes hageni, forewing of holotype.