Santonipsocus, Álvarez-Parra & Nel & Perrichot & Jouault, 2024

Alvarez-Parra, Sergio, Nel, Andre, Perrichot, Vincent & Jouault, Corentin, 2024, Unravelling the mishmash: A new phylogeny for the family Empheriidae (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) with a new genus and species from Cretaceous Charentese amber, Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 82, pp. 183-199 : 183

Genus Santonipsocus gen. nov.

Type species.

Santonipsocus mimeticus sp. nov. by present designation and monotypy.

Etymology.

A combination of ‘santoni-’ after the Santones, a Gallic tribe that inhabited the Saintonge within the Charentes region where the amber outcrop is located, and ' Psocus ', the common generic suffix in Psocodea. The name is masculine.

Diagnosis.

Antenna with 17 flagellomeres without secondary annulations; no ocelli; compound eye not prominent and small; distal maxillary palpomere globose and rounded; elongate distal labial palpomere; forewing and hind wing of similar sizes, slightly surpassing distal part of abdomen; forewing with setae on margin; two rows of setae on veins; crossvein between Sc and margin emerging very close to meeting point of Sc with R1; distal bent of basal section of Sc between the emerging of crossvein and meeting point with R1 curved, not straight or perpendicular to R1; vein 1A well developed, without nodulus; hind wing with bifurcation of Rs into R2+3 and R4+5 nearly at same level as R1 reaching margin; tibiae with three to four spines; pretarsal claws lacking preapical tooth and pulvillus.