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A new genus and species of brown lacewing from Venezuela (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), with comments on the evolution of the hemerobiid forewing radial vein
Author(s) -
OSWALD JOHN D.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - neuroptera , biology , subfamily , sensu , genus , zoology , phylogenetic tree , sister group , clade , ecology , predation , genetics , gene
.Biramus lunatus gen.n., sp.n. is described from Venezuela. This species is of special phylogenetic interest as it is the sister‐group of the subfamily Hemerobiinae ( sensu Oswald, 1993), which previously contained four genera ( Hemerobiella, Hemerobius, Nesobiella and Wesmaelius ) and approximately 200 of the c. 550 world hemerobiid species. The conformation of the forewing radius in Biramus is especially interesting and provides a test case for distinguishing parallel evolution among forewing radial vein states within the Hemerobiidae.