Karanemoura abrupta Sinitshenkova, 1987

Taxonomy

Stonefly

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Plecoptera Burmeister 1839
Family: Perlariopseidae Sinitshenkova 1985
Genus: Karanemoura
Species: Karanemoura abrupta
Author Citation Sinitshenkova, 1987

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Callovian to Oxfordian

Stratigraphy

Jiulongshan Formation
Daohugou Bed

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 18 mm

Location

Daohugou (Village)
Ningcheng (County)
Inner Mongolia (Province)
China

• daohugou
• haifanggou formation
• inner mongolia
• jiulongshan
• jurassic
• karanemoura
• tff-oilshale-ar2561

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.com.

Diagnosis from  Liu, Y.s., Sinitshenkova, N.D. & Ren, D., 2009, p. 185: "Adults. Medium-sized stoneflies. Head large, antennae long, prothorax narrow. Wings at rest extending considerably beyond apex of abdomen. In forewings, c–r absent; Rs bifurcating, usually forked at level of Sc apex. M branching slightly distad of Rs fork; m–cu always connecting base of MP with CuA. Crossveins between M and CuA and between CuA and CuP numerous. CuP straight, entering wing margin approximately at level of M fork. Hindwings with four longitudinal veins in anal area. Legs long and thin. First tarsomere long, almost twice as long as second; second tarsomere shorter than third. Cerci short, single-segmented."

Line drawing from Liu et al. 2009, p. 189:

 

References:

N. D. Sinitshenkova. (1987). Istopicheskoe razvitie vesiyanok. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 221:1-142.

Liu, Y.s., Sinitshenkova, N.D. & Ren, D. (2009). A revision of the Jurassic Stonefly Genera Dobbertiniopteryx Ansorge and Karanemoura Sinitshenkova (Insecta: Plecoptera), with the description of new species from the Daohugou locality, China. Paleontol. J. 43, 183–190. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030109020099