Austroneurorthus Nakahara, 1958

Aspoeck, Ulrike, Aspoeck, Horst & Liu, Xingyue, 2017, The Nevrorthidae, mistaken at all times: phylogeny and review of present knowledge (Holometabola, Neuropterida, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 77-110 : 84

Genus Austroneurorthus Nakahara, 1958

Austroneurorthus Nakahara, 1958: 29 (odescr) [Type species: Neurorthus brunneipennis Esben-Petersen, 1929, by original designation].

Austroneurorthus Nakahara, 1958: New 1978 (com); U. Aspöck 2004 (distr); U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck 2007 (fig: distrmap); U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck 2010a (fig: distrmap).

Diagnosis.

Adults of small body size; male forewing length 6.0-8.0 mm, hindwing length 6.0-7.0 mm, female forewing length 7.8-9.0 mm, hindwing length 6.8-8.0 mm. Body coloration yellowish, with dark pattern or brownish. Forewings transparent, crossveins partly dark and shaded. Costal crossveins of forewings partly forked. Hindwing MA and anterior branch of MP forked proximal to outer series of gradate crossveins. Male abdominal segment 7 not enlarged. A ring-like zone of glands present between male abdominal segments 8 and 9. Abdominal eversible sacks absent. Male sternite 9 long, strongly extending posteriad; gonocoxites 9 as huge plates without articulated gonostyli; gonapophyses 9 forming lobes; complex of gonocoxites + gonostyli + gonapophyses 10 amalgamated with sternite 9, forming a pseudoapex of the latter and framing it laterally; gonocoxites 11 fused into a broad sclerite. Fused female gonocoxites 8 forming a rectangular sclerite; gonocoxites 9 club-shaped, without distinct gonostyli; bursa copulatrix comprising a sclerotized structure.

Distribution.

Australia.