Iberomaimetsha Ortega-Blanco, Perrichot & Engel gen. n.

Type species.

Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni Ortega-Blanco, Perrichot & Engel, sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Antennae with 16 articles; pedicel straight; notauli parallel; forewing costal cell thinner than pterostigma width; prestigma incrassate, wider than base of R, and about the length of 1Rs (distinctly separated from pterostigma); pterostigma longer than distance from base of Rs to base of 2r-rs; cell [2R1] short, about 2.4x longer than wide; cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] present but with 2rs-m slightly sclerotized; extremely light nebulous 2m-cu (only visible playing with light incidence angle); protibial spur biseriate apically.

Etymology.

The new genus-group name is a combination of Iberia, referring to the Iberian Peninsula, and Maimetsha, type genus of the family. The name is feminine.

Comments.

Iberomaimetsha is well distinguished from Maimetsha and Guyotemaimetsha in the simultaneous presence of cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] (rm cells sensu Rasnitsyn and Brothers 2009); it differs from Afromaimetsha by its parallel notauli (instead of diverging anteriorly); the prestigma is incrassate, clearly wider than basalmost R, not as in Afrapia; the origin of Rs in Iberomaimetsha is well separated from pterostigma, not as close as in Maimetshorapia; the pedicel is straight and not “comma-shaped” as in Ahstemiam (see below); Andyrossia was described from just a forewing but Iberomaimetsha differs clearly in several details, such as the length of cell [2R1] (around 2.4 times longer than wide versus 3.6 in Andyrossia), and the width of cell [C] (narrower than pterostigmal width in Iberomaimetsha versus wider in Andyrossia).