Uranorhagio daohugouensis Zhang & Yang & Ren & Shih 2010
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URANORHAGIO DAOHUGOUENSIS ZHANG, YANG & REN GEN. ET SP. NOV. (FIGS 1, 2)
Etymology: The specific name refers to the type locality: Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China.
Diagnosis: The same as Uranorhagio gen. nov.
Holotype: CNU-DIB-NN2007016, an almost complete adult body with a wing in lateral view.
Paratype: CNU-DIB-NN2007017, an almost complete adult body with a wing in lateral view.
Type locality and horizon: Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China; Jiulongshan Formation, the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian–Bajocian).
Description: Body length, 18.0– 21.7 mm; wing length, 13.5–18.0 mm; wing width, 4.2–5.7 mm.
Body stout. Head round, slightly narrower than thorax. Eyes large, bare; ommatidia visible clearly.
Mesonotum slightly convex. Legs pubescent. Femora and tibiae of fore and mid-legs slender; fore tibia with a spur; hind femur robust, strongly swollen at apical part, hind tibia with two spurs; first tarsomere distinctly longer than following tarsomeres, empodium pulvilliform.
Wing hyaline, slender relative to body; veins thick and strong. Vein Sc ending slightly beyond middle of wing. Veins R 1 and Rs 1 long; vein R 2+3 distinctly and strongly bent upwards at base; veins R 2+3, R 4, and R 5 straight and parallel with each other (except for bases of veins R 2+3 and R 4); beginning of vein R 4 proximal to apex of cell d; vein R 5 ending at wing apex. Crossvein r–m at basal 3/7 of cell d, distal to beginning of vein R 2+3; relative length of veins Rs 1, Rs 2, and Rs 3 about 3.5: 1: 2.5 to 4.5: 1: 4. Veins M 1 and M 2 bifurcating distal of crossvein m–m, with base of vein M 1 curved upwards; vein M 3 short. Vein CuA 1 arising from cell bm. Anal lobe with several veins (or just some creases of wing). Mouths of cells sc and r 1 wide; mouths of cells r 2+3 and r 4 distinctly narrower; cell r 4 much narrower. Cell bm slightly wider than cell br; cell d large, nearby wing margin, curved quadrangle. Five posterior cells present and wide open; mouths of cells m 1 and m 2 subequal in length; mouth of cell m 3 narrow, about 1/5–1/2 as wide as that of cell cua 1. Cell cup distinctly open; anal lobe small and narrow.
Abdomen robust, pubescent. Nine segments visible; segment I evidently shortest.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Zhang & Yang & Ren & Shih
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Uranorhagionidae
- Genus
- Uranorhagio
- Species
- daohugouensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Uranorhagio daohugouensis Zhang, 2010 sec. Zhang, Yang, Ren & Shih, 2010