Inocellia Schneider

Liu, Xingyue, Aspöck, Horst, Zhang, Weiwei & Aspöck, Ulrike, 2012, New species of the snakefly genus Inocellia Schneider, 1843 (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae) from Yunnan, China, Zootaxa 3298, pp. 43-52 : 44

Genus Inocellia Schneider

Inocellia Schneider, 1843: 84 . Type species: Raphidia crassicornis Schummel, 1832 (designated by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Adults generally blackish-brown with yellowish thoracic and abdominal markings, and sometimes with pale markings on head. Antennae and legs usually pale yellow or yellowish brown. Media anterior in the hindwing invisible. Male gonocoxite 9 dome-like, much wider than long in the I. crassicornis group, while much longer than wide in the I. fulvostigmata group; inner side with a stylus near subapical portion, and usually bearing some bristle tufts. Pseudostyli (basal parts of gonapophyses 9) feebly sclerotized, generally narrow and foliate, closely approximated to each other in the middle. Parameres (gonocoxite-gonapophyses-gonostyli complex 10) unpaired, proximal portion flattened, with a slender distal projection. Gonarcus (fused gonocoxites 11) generally shield-like, sometimes with projections from its posterior surface. Endophallus short, mostly with some bristles or bristle tufts. Female sternum 7 broad, posteriorly produced more or less, with posterior margin truncate or concave; subgenital plate (fused gonocoxites 8) reduced into a small ovoid sclerite or much more modified into a diversely shaped plate.

Distribution. Europe ( Austria, Czech Republic, European part of Russia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden); Asia ( Afghanistan, Armenia, Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia Far East, Thailand).

Comments The heuristic value, as well as the conflicts of subdividing the genus Inocellia into the I. crassicornis and I. fulvostigmata groups have been discussed elsewhere ( Liu et al. 2010a, 2010b, U. Aspöck et al. 2011).