Babykamenia Ponomarenko & Shcherbakov, 2004

Winterton, Shaun L., Martins, Caleb Califre, Makarkin, Vladimir, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Wang, Yongjie, 2019, Lance lacewings of the world (Neuroptera: Archeosmylidae, Osmylidae, Saucrosmylidae): review of living and fossil genera, Zootaxa 4581 (1), pp. 1-99 : 12

Babykamenia Ponomarenko & Shcherbakov, 2004

Type species. Babykamenia eskovi Ponomarenko & Shcherbakov, 2004 : S203 (by original designation).

Diagnosis. Forewing elongate with few crossveins present; trichosors and end-twigging present along posterior margin; costal area narrow; RA beyond junction with Sc only slightly arched along wing length; narrow terminal forks numerous along posterior wing margin although few amongst distal RP branches; RP origin towards base of wing; RP with twelve close-set branches, proximal ones almost parallel to longitudinal wing axis along most of length, not curving towards posterior wing margin in distal part of wing; M forked distal to origin of RP1 with numerous end-twigging; CuA pectinately branched around wing midpoint (distal to separation of MA and MP) closer to wing margin and comprising four branches; CuP forks proximal to CuA branching with anterior branch forking once more; 1A pectinate, with more branches than CuA or 2A; HW unknown.

Comments. Typical of stem group taxa, Babykamenia (like other Archaeosmylidae) exhibits plesiomorphic features such as RP originating basally in the wing and CuP forked with branches occupying a smaller area of the wing than M. These features lead Ponomarenko & Shcherbakov (2004) to suggest a closer relationship with Archeosmylidae and Permithonidae , although recent evidence suggests that while they are both stem group taxa, the resemblance is superficial. Permithonidae are older than Archeosmylidae and likely represent stem-group neuropteridans, while Archeosmylidae represent stem-group Osmylidae (see Engel et al., 2018).