{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["1108"],"submitter":["Cao Y"],"pubmed_abstract":["Two new species of <i>Itaphlebia</i> Sukatsheva, 1985, <i>I.procera</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>I.elegana</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, are described and illustrated from the latest Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Based on fossil specimens with wings, these new species are established and assigned to <i>Itaphlebia</i> by a combination of three forewing characters: Sc with three branches ending at C, the four-branched Rs (R<sub>2</sub> to R<sub>5</sub>) originating distad of M (vs. three-branched RS (R<sub>2+3</sub> undivided) in all other fossil and extant nannochoristids), and M forking with four branches; and a hind wing character of Sc simple and short, terminating at C well before the pterostigma. Furthermore, this is the first report of long and robust setae present on the anal veins of the forewing for <i>I.elegana</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in fossil Nannochoristidae."],"journal":["ZooKeys"],"pagination":["175-188"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9848664"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Two new species of <i>Itaphlebia</i> (Insecta, Mecoptera, Nannochoristidae) from the late Middle Jurassic of China."],"pmcid":["PMC9848664"],"pubmed_authors":["Cao Y","Lin X","Shih C","Ren D"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Two new species of <i>Itaphlebia</i> (Insecta, Mecoptera, Nannochoristidae) from the late Middle Jurassic of China.","description":"Two new species of <i>Itaphlebia</i> Sukatsheva, 1985, <i>I.procera</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>I.elegana</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, are described and illustrated from the latest Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Based on fossil specimens with wings, these new species are established and assigned to <i>Itaphlebia</i> by a combination of three forewing characters: Sc with three branches ending at C, the four-branched Rs (R<sub>2</sub> to R<sub>5</sub>) originating distad of M (vs. three-branched RS (R<sub>2+3</sub> undivided) in all other fossil and extant nannochoristids), and M forking with four branches; and a hind wing character of Sc simple and short, terminating at C well before the pterostigma. Furthermore, this is the first report of long and robust setae present on the anal veins of the forewing for <i>I.elegana</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in fossil Nannochoristidae.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-18T21:17:32.198Z","creation":"2025-04-07T09:15:43.722Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9848664","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36760696"],"doi":["10.3897/zookeys.1108.85378"]}}