Ahiromaimetsha Perrichot, Azar, Nel & Engel gen. n.

Type species.

Ahiromaimetsha najlae Perrichot, Azar, Nel & Engel, sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Antennae apparently with 16 articles; pedicel straight; forewing costal cell apically about as wide as pterostigmal width; prestigma not incrassate, not wider than base of R, about as long as 1Rs (distinctly separated from pterostigma); cell [2R1] long, nearly 4x longer than wide; cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] present, former greatly enlarged; 2Rs+M absent owing to confluence of 1m-cu with 2Rs; 1rs-m exceptionally minute (Figs 11, 12D); 2rs-m completely sclerotized; protibial spur bifurcate apically; female tarsi with apicoventral plantar lobes.

Etymology.

The new genus-group name is a combination of Ahirom, Phoenician king of Byblos (ca. 1000 BC) whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription in the Phoenician alphabet, and Maimetsha, type genus of the family. The name is considered to be feminine.

Comments.

Ahiromaimetsha can be distinguished most easily from other genera by the effective absence of 2Rs+M owing to the confluence of 1m-cu with the second free abscissa of Rs. Like Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni and Andyrossia joyceae, Ahiromaimetsha najlae has a large cell [1Rs] but even more so than in the aforementioned species and, unlike Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni, the prestigma is not incrassate.