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Issue: Vol. 5696 No. 3: 25 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.3.9
Page range: 444-450
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A further new genus of Drepanicinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok; 960022; Russia
Frederiksvej 25; Frederiksberg 2000; Denmark
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; Denmark
Neuroptera Mantispidae drepanicinae earliest eocene Fur Formation

Abstract

Protheristria roldae gen. et sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Mantispidae: Drepanicinae) is described from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark. This is the second genus of Mantispidae and Drepanicinae from this formation. The new genus is distinguished from other drepanicine genera by a combination of fore- and hind wing venation character states: one gradate series of crossveins is present in the radial to intramedial spaces; pterostigma is short and pale; Sc distally (bordering the pterostigma) is very pale; all branches of RP are forked once. The two genera known from the Fur Formation, Danomantispa Makarkin et al., 2025 and Protheristria gen. nov., are not closely related and certainly belong to different genus groups.

 

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How to Cite

Makarkin, V.N., Nielsen, C. & Perkovsky, E.E. (2025) A further new genus of Drepanicinae (Neuroptera: Mantispidae) from the earliest Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark. Zootaxa, 5696 (3), 444–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.3.9