Libanophlebotomites ramyi, AZAR & MAALOUF & MAKSOUD, 2022

AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR & MAKSOUD, SIBELLE, 2022, Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), Palaeoentomology 5 (4), pp. 340-346 : 342-343

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:779F3A3C-E060-456E-9920-248F24E90982
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7383884
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1276B111-B55F-FF8A-47BF-1D31FA3C2D2A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Libanophlebotomites ramyi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Libanophlebotomites ramyi View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 1–6 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 6 )

Etymology. The species epithet is in honor of Ramy Maalouf, son of one of us (MM).

Diagnosis. As for the genus (vide supra).

Locality and horizon. Qanat Bakish, Baskinta; Caza (= District) El-Maten; Mouhafazet (= Governorate) Mount Lebanon; central Lebanon (pictures of the site and geological map are given in Maksoud et al., 2021: 368, fig. 1), lower Barremian ( Granier et al., 2016; Maksoud et al., 2017, 2021).

Type material. Female holotype specimen QBC 42A (Maalouf collection) from Qanat Bakish, Baskinta outcrop (central Lebanon), deposited in the Museum of Natural History of the Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Fanar, Lebanon.

Description. Head 0.280 mm long (without mouthparts) ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ); mouthparts well developed (0.15 mm long), with sharp and elongate mandibles and laciniae ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ), palp 0.325 mm long, with five palpomeres ( Fig. 3A, B View FIGURE 3 ), with palpomeres II and III longest, palpomeres I–V lengths respectively 0.038-0.091-0.088- 0.047- 0.061 mm; eyes rounded, 0.18 mm of diameter; antenna 1.070 mm long, with 15 flagellomeres ( Fig. 4A, B View FIGURE 4 ); first flagellomere comparatively short, almost as long as following flagellomere; last flagellomere (apiculus) short and drop like ( Fig. 4A, B View FIGURE 4 ); flagellomere I–XV lengths respectively:0.150-0.093-0.093-0.087-0.081-0.075-0.075- 0.068-0.068-0.059-0.056-0.050-0.050-0.050-0.015; scape nearly cylindrical, 0.050 mm long. Pedicel ellipsoid, 0.093 mm long; all flagellomeres bearing curved setae, ascoids are not discernable.

Thorax 0.820 mm long, 0.500 mm high, not well preserved; proscutum and scutum not strongly gibbous; legs slightly shorter than entire body; tibiae of forelegs each with at least three strong and long setae aligned along the inner side. Wing 1.420 mm long, 0.450 mm wide, hyaline ( Fig. 5A, B View FIGURE 5 ); humeral vein reaching costal margin; subcostal vein (Sc) distally fused with R1, 0.450 mm from wing base, and with crossvein reaching costal margin; R1 reaching costal margin 0.960 mm from wing base; Rs four-branched, with all its branches extending to wing margin; R2 and R3 separating 0.930 mm distally; R4 and R5 almost straight, reaching wing margin respectively at 1.400 and 1.410 mm apically; M1 and M2 bifurcating 0.900 mm distally, reaching wing margin respectively at 1.400 and 1.320 mm; M1 distally nearly straight; M2 slightly shorter than M1; M3 reaching wing margin at 1.150 mm from wing base; M4 [CuA 1] reaching wing margin 1.010 mm distad wing base. CuA [CuA 2] (Cu after Byers et al., 1989; Krzemiński & Krzemińska, 2003) short and week reaching posterior margin of wing. All main veins and wing margin bearing long macrotrichiae. Halteres 0.300 mm long; knob fusiform 0.125 mm long.

Abdomen 0.930 mm long including genital appendages, dorsal surfaces of all abdominal segments bearing few setae. Female genital appendages ( Fig. 6A, B View FIGURE 6 ) with cercus elliptic (0.097 mm long); male unknown.