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Issue: Vol. 4324 No. 2: 27 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.2.13
Page range: 397–400
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 22

A new fossil green lacewing (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) from the early Eocene Driftwood Canyon, Canada

Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1A1.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 960022, Russia
Neuroptera Chrysopidae Nothochrysinae new species Eocene Driftwood Canyon

Abstract

Lithochrysa borealis sp. nov. (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Nothochrysinae) is described from the early Eocene locality at Driftwood Canyon (British Columbia, Canada). The forewing venation of the new species is similar to that of the late Eocene L. wickhami (Cockerell, 1914) from Florissant (Colorado, U.S.A.), but is distinguished from it by a slightly longer intramedian cell and distinctly longer branches of RP to CuA between the pseudocubitus and the posterior margin.

 

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