Sergyessa Shcherbakov, Perkovsky, Sylvestersen & Anisyutkin, 2025

Shcherbakov, Evgeny O., Perkovsky, Evgeny E., Sylvestersen, René L. & Anisyutkin, Leonid N., 2025, The northernmost Eocene genus and species of praying mantises (Mantodea Burmeister, 1838) from Fur Formation, Denmark, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 433-440 : 434

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.37
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48255158-F38C-467C-9232-45DD98195966
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17888661
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B0BBF7B-FFB3-704C-85D9-FC4BFDA6FAD4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sergyessa Shcherbakov, Perkovsky, Sylvestersen & Anisyutkin
status	gen. nov.

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Genus Sergyessa Shcherbakov, Perkovsky, Sylvestersen & Anisyutkin , gen. nov.

Type species— Sergyessa rusti Shcherbakov, Perkovsky, Sylvestersen & Anisyutkin , sp. nov. (by the present designation).

Diagnosis. Forewing with ScP ending at 3/4 of the wing’s length. R with long anterior branches, with the first split occurring at approximately 2/3 of the wing’s length. CuA internally pectinate. CuP sigmoidal. PCu long, ending in wing’s membrane. V1 is 2.7 times longer than V2, sigmoidal.

Stratigraphic range. Ypresian, lowermost Eocene.

Geographic range. Fur Formation, Denmark.

Composition. Monotypic.

Etymology. In honour of entomologist Sergey Yu. Storozhenko and in reference to the genus Chaeteessa Burmeister, 1838 . Gender feminine.