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Leptostigma Archibald & Rasnitsyn 2023, n. gen.

  • 1. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2020 - 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V 6 T 1 Z 4, Canada. bruce. archibald @ ubc. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4397 - 2497 & Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V 5 A 1 S 6, Canada Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States of America & Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V 8 W 9 W 2, Canada
  • 2. A. A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, Russia & Invertebrate Paleontology Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom Corresponding author. bruce. archibald @ ubc. ca

Description

Leptostigma n. gen.

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Figs. 3A–D, 3G–K, 5–21.

Type species. Leptostigma brevilatum n. sp.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from Cenocimbex by lacking dark triangular sclerite on R basal to pterostigma reaching 1-Rs+M near 1m-cu (absent or undetectable being small, pale); wing narrower (length/width 2.8 or more); cell 3rm long (2r-m to 3r-m distinctly longer than length of 3r-m); hind wing with cu-a well before middle of cell mcu; distinguished from Allenbycimbex by pterostigma narrow, maximum height about equal to height to C to R basal to pterostigma.

Species included. The type species and L. longiclava n. sp., L. longipallidum n. sp., L. longitenebricum n. sp., L. proxivena n. sp., L. fasciatum n. sp., and L. alaemacula n. sp.

Etymology. From the Greek leptos, meaning thin, and stigma, for the pterostigma. The name is neuter (see Examples below Art. 30.1.2, ICZN 1999).

Locality and age. Republic, Washington, United States of America, Tom Thumb Tuff Member of the Klondike Mountain Formation exposure A0307; and McAbee, British Columbia, Canada, Hoodoo Face beds; mid-Ypresian.

Notes

Published as part of Archibald, S. Bruce & Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P., 2023, Cimbicidae (Hymenoptera, ' Symphyta') in the Paleogene: revision, the new subfamily Cenocimbicinae, and new taxa from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 5278 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7894826

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Additional details

Identifiers

Biodiversity

Collection code
A
Material sample ID
A0307
Scientific name authorship
Archibald & Rasnitsyn
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Cimbicidae
Genus
Leptostigma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Leptostigma Archibald & Rasnitsyn, 2023

References

  • ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4 th Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp. [https: // www. iczn. org / the-code / the-code-online /]