Berezovskiy, TRIAPITSYN, SERGUEI V. & BEREZOVSKIY, VLADIMIR V., 2007
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gen. nov. |
Boccacciomymar S. Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy , gen. n.
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Type species: Palaeoneura turneri Waterhouse.
Description Color. Body mostly brown to dark brown, appendages light to dark brown.
Head. Vertex smooth to reticulate, face smooth or lightly sculptured. Face with a pit next to each torulus; ocelli in a very obtuse triangle. Mandible tridentate.
Antenna. Inner surface of scape with or without cross-ridges; female funicle 6-segmented, longitudinal sensilla sometimes present on F2–F6; clava entire, with 7, 8, 9, or 11 longitudinal sensilla; male flagellum 11- segmented.
Mesosoma. Mesonotum smooth to reticulate (except propodeum). Pronotum divided mediolongitudinally; propleura abutting each other anteriorly along midline, the prosternum thus closed anteriorly. Mesoscutum with distinct notauli and without setae; axillar seta usually weak; scutellum with or without a row of frenal foveae, scutellar sensilla close to or at anterior margin of scutellum; metanotum usually entire but divided mediolongitudinally in one species. Propodeum posteriorly with two short and usually weak subparallel submedial carinae; propodeum with one pair of setae near posterior margin; propodeal spiracle rounded.
Wings. Forewing narrow to broad (brachypterous in one species); venation short, extending to about 1/4– 3/10 wing length, hypochaeta usually not extending to posterior margin, marginal vein with 1 or 2 macrochaetae; blade hyaline or mostly hyaline (sometimes slightly infumate basally and often with a conspicuous or inconspicuous narrow darkening along anterior margin distal to apex of venation), densely and more or less uniformly setose (except for several small bare areas behind and just beyond venation in the nominate subgenus); longest marginal cilia shorter than greatest width of blade.
Legs. Tarsi 4-segmented.
Metasoma. Petiole in dorsal view cylindrical to subquadrate, usually moderately to strongly swollen, attached posteriorly to gastral sternum; ovipositor short to long, sometimes markedly exserted beyond apex of gaster; digiti of male genitalia without hooks or spines.
Diagnosis
This genus resembles and likely is related to Xenopolynema Ogloblin from Argentina and Chile because both genera share such important features as the presence of pits on the face near the toruli, a “closed” prosternum, usually a strongly swollen petiole attached to the gastral sternum, and a conspicuous narrow darkening along the anterior margin distal to the apex of venation (although it is inconspicuous or absent in Boccacciomymar (Prosto) subgen. n.). Boccacciomymar differs from Xenopolynema in lacking the conspicuous darkening of the forewing blade behind the marginal vein that demarcates the archaic basal vein, in having a shorter marginal vein of the forewing, in having subparallel (rather than semicircular) carinae on the propodeum, and in having the digiti of male genitalia without spines. The scutellar sensilla are close to or at the anterior margin of scutellum in Boccacciomymar but more or less in the middle of scutellum (and closer to the frenal line than to the anterior margin of scutellum) in Xenopolynema . Among the Australian genera, Boccacciomymar is somewhat similar to Richteria , whose petiole is also attached to the gastral sternum and whose propodeum has short subparallel submedial carinae. Boccacciomymar differs from Richteria in having a different forewing (very narrow just beyond the short venation and with conspicuous bands on the blade in Richteria , Fig. 126) and pits near the toruli (pits absent in Richteria ). From Palaeoneura , some species of which (e.g., P. interrupta ) also have a conspicuous narrow darkening along the anterior margin distal to the apex of venation, Boccacciomymar differs in having pits on the face near the toruli and by the way the petiole is attached to the gaster (to the sternum).
Biology Host associations and other biological information are unknown.
Distribution Australia and New Zealand. Etymology
The generic name is based on the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio. In the wake of what is said to be an almost inevitable worldwide pandemic of bird flu in humans, his masterpiece book may in fact be as contemporary to us as ever. The last name "Boccaccio" is combined with the common ending for many fairyfly genera, "- mymar ". Gender neutral.
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