Permopsyche
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Ordo: Mecoptera
Familia: Mesopanorpodidae
Name
Permopsyche Bashkuev, 2011 gen. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
- Mesopanorpodes: Riek, 1953, p. 70 (partim, quoad Mesopanorpodes belmontensis and Mesopanorpodes robustus).
Type species
Permopsyche issadensis sp. n.; Upper Permian, European Russia.
Etymology
From the Permian and Greek psyche, “soul” or “mind,” the word often used for devising names of delicately winged insects. Gender feminine.
Diagnosis
In forewing, SC long, bearing only inclined fore branch, connecting distally with R1 by crossvein. Costal space narrow. Both RS and MA forks not longer than their stems. MP 4-branched. CuA base oblique to transverse, not distinctly inclined backwards; M5 present or lost. Anal area not expanded. Crossveins not numerous. In hindwing, CuP concave with respect to membrane (in contrast to convex R1).
Comparison
Differs from the closest genus Mesopsyche by the base of CuA being oblique to transverse (not inclined backwards), costal space narrower, and hindwing CuP concave with respect to membrane.
Composition
In addition to the type species, from the same locality, Permopsyche rasnitsyni sp. n.;and from the Upper Permian of Australia, Permopsyche belmontensis (Riek, 1953) comb. n. and Permopsyche robustus (Riek, 1953) comb. n.
Remarks
The assumption that one of the key characters, the position of hindwing CuP with respect to the membrane, known in the type species only, is shared by the other species is tentative and requires further verification.
