Paranarkemina Pinto & Ornellas, 1980

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 : 93-94

Genus Paranarkemina Pinto & Ornellas, 1980

Paranarkemina: Pinto & Ornellas 1980: 288 .

Type species: Paranarkemina kurtzi Pinto & Ornellas, 1980 , by original designation.

Emended diagnosis: Fore wing relatively wide. ScP distally fused with RA. Origin of RP close to the origin of MP. MP +CuA not strongly convergent to MA. Supporting cross vein ma–mp absent. CuP convergent and distally fused with AP.

Comparison: Paranarkemina differs from the other known genera of the Proedischiidae , except Argentinonarkemina gen. n., in having the origin of RP close to the origin of MP. See schematic pattern of the main veins in Fig. 6 .

Constituent species: P. kurtzi Pinto & Ornellas, 1980 (= P. velizensis Pinto & Ornellas, 1981 ) (Upper Carboniferous, Argentina) and P. martinsnetoi Würdig, Pinto & AdamiRodrigues, 1998 (Upper Carboniferous, Paraná Basin, Brazil).

Remarks: Storozhenko (1998) considered Paranarkemina velizensis as a fragment of the hind wing of the last-instar subimago of P. kurtzi and synonymised both species, with which we agree.

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

Fig. 7

Etymology: After Argentina, where the material comes from, in combination with Narkemina . Gender feminine.

Type species: Paranarkemina amosi Pinto, 1992 , here designated.

Diagnosis: Origin of RP close to origin of MP. MP +CuA strongly convergent to MA, ma–mp present and CuP not distally fused with AP.

Comparison: Similar to Paranarkemina in having the origin of RP close to the origin of MP, differing however by having MP +CuA strongly convergent to MA, and ma–mp present, as well as CuP not distally fused with AP.

Species included: Argentinonarkemina amosi (Pinto, 1992) , comb. n.

Figures

Figs 6, 7. Schematic drawing of wing venation: (6) Paranarkemina martinsnetoi; (7) Argentinonarkemina amosi. Vein designations: see Fig. 2.