Parakseneura sp.

Taxonomy

Neuroptera

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Neuroptera Linnaeus 1758
Family: Parakseneuridae Yang et al. 2012
Genus: Parakseneura
Species: Parakseneura sp.
Author Citation ​​​​​​​Yang Q, Makarkin VN, Winterton SL, Khramov AV, Ren D. (2012)

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

Location

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

• daohugou
• inner mongolia
• jiulongshan
• ningcheng
• parakseneura
• tff-oilshale-ar2810

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.com.

Diagnosis for the genus from Yang et al. 2012, p. 4: 'Large neuropterans (forewing 50–75 mm long) with the following character states: labial palpi stout, relatively short; antennae stout, filiform, apparently much shorter than forewing length; two tibial spurs straight, shorter than basitarsus; claws big, strongly curved; in both wing, humeral veinlet well-developed, strongly recurrent, branched; presumed ScA short, fused with ScP within humeral area; membrane covered with dense, long hairs; RA (or ScP+RA) entering margin well before wing apex; subcostal crossveins numerous; radial crossveins irregularly spaced, not forming gradate series; in the forewing, MP, CuA, CuP dichotomously branched; presumed AA1+2 very short (found in Parakseneura gen. nov.); AA3+4, AP1+2, AP3+4 deeply forked; in hind wing, presumed AA1+2 very short (found in Pseudorapisma gen. nov.); proximal half of hind wings considerably wider than distal.'

Determined by Dr. V. Makarkin, Academy of Sciences Vladivostok, Russia, as Paraksneura sp.
It might be P. albadelta.
Line drawing from Yang et al., 2012, p. 12:

References:
Yang Q, Makarkin VN, Winterton SL, Khramov AV, Ren D. (2012) A Remarkable New Family of Jurassic Insects (Neuroptera) with Primitive Wing Venation and Its Phylogenetic Position in Neuropterida. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44762. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044762.