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03AD87D9F25D7E4CF8E2FA63FBA2FE04.text	03AD87D9F25D7E4CF8E2FA63FBA2FE04.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Jurathauma Zhang & Shih & Petrulevičius & Ren 2011	<div><p>Genus Jurathauma n. gen.</p> <p>Notiothauma – M’Lachlan 1877: 427-430 (part).</p> <p>TYPE SPECIES. — Jurathauma simplex n. gen., n. sp.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. — The generic name is a combination of the word Jurassic and thauma, a Greek word,meaning a wonderful thing or a marvel, from the recent genus of Eomeropidae Notiothauma M’Lachlan, 1877. Gender feminine.</p> <p>DIAGNOSIS. — Simplified venation compared to other genera of the family: costal area traversed by one main veinlet and forming two rows of cells; RP + MA with five branches; MP with five branches; CuA double and CuP simple; three anal veins.</p> <p>Jurathauma simplex n. gen., n. sp. (Figs 1; 2A, B, D; 3)</p> <p>TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (CNU-MEC-NN2009001) and paratype (CNU-MEC-NN2009002).</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY. — China. Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia; Jiulongshan Formation.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name is derived from the Latin simplex (meaning “simple”) referring to its simple venation.</p> <p>MATERIAL EXAMINED FOR COMPARISON. —Two new specimens described herein: Tsuchingothauma shihi Ren &amp; Shih, 2005 (CNU-M-NN200401 and CNU-M-NN200402) from the Middle Jurassic of Jiulongshan Formation, Daohugou locality, and Typhothauma yixianensis Ren &amp; Shih, 2005 (CNU-M-LB200401) from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Yixian Formation, Chaomidian locality.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION. — Daohugou Village, Shantou Township, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China; Jiulongshan Formation.</p> <p>DESCRIPTION</p> <p>Based mainly on the holotype, with supplemental information from the paratype.</p> <p>Holotype</p> <p>A complete male specimen preserved in dorsal view; wings almost symmetrically arranged, with a pair on each side slightly overlapped; body length (excluding antennae) 15 mm; head and antennae not preserved (Figs 1A; 3A).</p> <p>Paratype</p> <p>A complete female specimen preserved in dorsal view; forewing and hind wing overlapped and partially preserved; body length (excluding antennae) 20 mm; hypognathous head partially preserved;</p> <p>antennae incomplete with many antennomeres, filiform (Figs 2A, B; 3B, C).</p> <p>Forewing length 16.1 mm, width 6.2mm; apical margin of the forewing somewhat sharp-pointed (Fig. 1 A-C). At very base of the costal margin, a cluster of less than 20 heavy setae (up to 1.35 mm long) for an area of about 1.4 mm wide; distally, an area about 2 mm wide with shorter (up to 0.3 mm long) setae (measurements based on left forewing); costal margin continuing pubescent; costal area narrow basally to humeral vein, distally broadened, traversed by two rows of cells and a strong and longitudinal secondary vein parallel to the costal margin with four (in right wing) and seven (in left wing) crossveins; three crossveins from ScP to the secondary longitudinal vein; ScP distally vanishing and not reaching anterior wing margin; pterostigma present, apical part of RA vanishing or obscure in this area; RA, RP + MA and MP forming the “ Eomeropidae triadic branching” (Fig. 1B); RA diverging anteriorly from RP + MA, as in Tsuchingothauma shihi Ren &amp; Shih, 2005 (Fig. 2D); RP + MA continuing straight with R; RA simple, weakly zigzagged; RP + MA with two main branches, anterior one with three terminal branches, posterior one with two terminal branches; three setae on Cu just before its bifurcation, a longer seta in the beginning of CuA; MP bifurcated into two main branches, MP1 + 2 continuing the same direction, MP3 + 4 diverging posteriorly at a nearly straight angle; MP1 single, MP2 double, MP3 single, MP3 + 4 joined with CuA1 + 2 by a short distance in left wing, MP3 + 4 only touching CuA1 + 2 in right wing (see arrows in Figure 1B, C); CuA1 + 2 free (?); CuA3 + 4 strongly and curvy zigzagged by crossveins, bent sharply posteriad approximately at branching of MP, only with one terminal branch; CuP single, zigzagged by crossveins; three simple anal veins. All veins thickened in basal parts, then narrower; no coloration detected. Entire forewing with many crossveins and long hexagonal cells.</p> <p>Hind wing length 12.5 mm, width 5.0 mm; veins partly preserved (Fig. 1A, D). Costal area with few (at least three) crossveins; pterostigma present; apical part of RA vanished or obscure in this area; RP + MA arising from RA at acute angle; RA continuing stem of R; RA simple, posteriorly limiting pterostigma; RP + MA divided in two main branches, anterior one with three terminal branches, posterior one with two terminal branches; MP1 single, MP2 double, MP3 single, MP3 + 4 only touching CuA1 + 2 in right wing (as in recent Notiothauma); CuA incompletely preserved. All veins thickened in basal parts, then narrower; no trace of coloration. Compared to the forewing, the hind wing smaller in size and with fewer crossveins and long hexagonal cells.</p> <p>Prothorax poorly preserved. Meso- and metanotum distinctly larger than pronotum. There is a certain amount of crinite on the thorax (Figs 1A; 3A, B).</p> <p>Legs densely clothed with transverse rows of short setae. Femora stout.Tibiae somewhat longer and slender, with many conspicuous spines and 2 terminal spurs. Tarsi 5-segmented, basitarsus longest. Pretarsus with 2 lateral claws (Figs 2C; 3D, E).</p> <p>Abdomen elongate, tapering apically, with 9 visible segments. Segments 8 and 9 abruptly more slender than 1-6. Lateral tergal horns in segment 7. Gonostylus partially preserved (Fig 1A).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87D9F25D7E4CF8E2FA63FBA2FE04	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Zhang, Junxia;Shih, Chungkun;Petrulevičius, Julián Fernando;Ren, Dong	Zhang, Junxia, Shih, Chungkun, Petrulevičius, Julián Fernando, Ren, Dong (2011): A new fossil eomeropid (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation, Inner Mongolia, China. Zoosystema 33 (4): 443-450, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n4a2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2011n4a2
