Fusiogramma minuta, Boderau & Roques & Nel, 2024

Boderau, Mathieu, Roques, Patrick & Nel, Andre, 2024, New paleopteran and polyneopteran insects from the Carboniferous of Northern France, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69 (4), pp. 737-745 : 741

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01189.2024

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DFDB11-F51E-7963-C1E0-D847FF5BEAA9

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Fusiogramma minuta
status

sp. nov.

Fusiogramma minuta sp. nov.

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Zoobank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:55B8A246-4E60-4D41-9AE7-D1E713677BA1

Etymology: Named after the minute size of the species.

Holotype: MNHN.F.A.95115, part of a nearly complete wing, with only extreme base missing

Type locality: Coal heap N°7, Avion, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Type horizon: Moscovian (Westphalian C/D equivalent to Bolsovian/ Asturian), Middle Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous.

Diagnosis.—Wing characters only. Vein MA basally fused with RP and re-emerging distally as a simple vein; stem of RP anteriorly curved; only three branches of RP.

Description.—Wing 7.9 mm long, 2.2 mm wide; costal area very narrow; ScP and R/RA straight and closely parallel; ScP ending on costa 5.4 mm from wing base; RA ending 1.2 mm distally; RP and M+CuA separating from R at the same point, 1.5 mm from wing base; vein MA not separated from RP and re-emerging from RP+MA 1.9 mm distally; MA simple; RP with three simple branches; area between RA and RP broad, 0.5 mm wide; anterior-most branch of RP ending on costa close to apex of RA; main stem of RP anteriorly curved; convex MP+CuA+CuPaa closely parallel to concave CuPab, both straight; CuPb weakly curved; two veins in area posterior to CuPb.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Moscovian, Northern France.

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