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Westphaloptilus Guan & Prokop & Roques & Lapeyrie & Nel 2016
Description
Genus Westphaloptilus nov.
Etymology: Named after the Westphalian stage and Anthracoptilus.
Type species: Westphaloptilus gallicus sp. nov.; monotypic, see below
Diagnosis.—Forewing characters only. Area between C and ScP with a series of veinlets and crossveins; RP emerging from R in basal half of wing; median vein braced to CuA by a short convex mp-cua; CuA and CuP emerging from a long common stem Cu; main stem of CuA strongly convex, but anteriorly pectinate with only three parallel convex branches (apomorphy).
Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Westphalian C or D, Carboniferous (= Bashkirian, Lower Pennsylvanian), France
Notes
Published as part of Guan, Zhaoying, Prokop, Jakub, Roques, Patrick, Lapeyrie, Jean & Nel, André, 2016, Revision of the enigmatic insect family Anthracoptilidae enlightens the evolution of Palaeozoic stem-dictyopterans, pp. 71-87 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.4202/app.00051.2014, http://zenodo.org/record/10980713
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Anthracoptilidae
- Genus
- Westphaloptilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Paoliida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Guan & Prokop & Roques & Lapeyrie & Nel
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Westphaloptilus Guan, 2016 sec. Guan, Prokop, Roques, Lapeyrie & Nel, 2016