Search

Euporismus Tillyard, 1916 (Fig. 48) Type species. Euporismus albatrox Tillyard, 1916: 41 (by original designation). Diagnosis. Female forecoxa with numerous weakly pedicellate setae arranged into irregular rows along outer ventral edge, anteroventral process absent; wings relatively broad and slightly falcate; both wings dark infuscate with stark contrasted white mottled markings and large irregular white patches apically; FW stem of RP short, RP originating close to wing base, RP1 originating close to origin of RP; RP branches strongly sinuous distally in both wings; FW end-twigging irregular and intermittent along posterior margin of wing; FW M forked midway along wing, both MA and MP pectinately branched; female with FW veins regular, not incrassate; FW CuA and CuP distally strongly arched towards posterior wing margin; FW 2A very short, terminates in wing margin level with origin of RP1; male tergites 8 and 9 entirely fused, ectoproct without angular process; gonarcus apex broadly truncate; entoprocesses curved and apically clubbed; female spermatheca spherical. Comments. Euporismus is a monotypic genus from Southern Queensland with spectacularly marked wings. It is represented by very few specimens in collections; collection labels indicate that this species was found sitting on large rocks in a river bed (Tillyard, 1916), which is unusual for a member of Stenosmylinae as species of this subfamily are typically found far from water (Winterton et al., 2017). Certain wing characters in Euporismus are very similar to Oedosmylus and Stenosmylus, suggesting a close relationship with these genera (Tillyard, 1916; Kimmins, 1 940)., Published as part of Winterton, Shaun L., Martins, Caleb Califre, Makarkin, Vladimir, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Wang, Yongjie, 2019, Lance lacewings of the world (Neuroptera: Archeosmylidae, Osmylidae, Saucrosmylidae): review of living and fossil genera, pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 4581 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4581.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2633842, {"references":["Tillyard, R. J. (1916) Studies in Australian Neuroptera. No. ii. Descriptions of new genera and species of the families Osmylidae, Myrmeleontidae, and Ascalaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 41, 41 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 15306","Winterton, S. L., Zhao, J., Garzon-Orduna, I., Wang, Y. & Liu, Z. (2017) Phylogeny of lance lacewings (Neuroptera: Osmylidae). Systematic Entomology, 42, 555 - 574. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / syen. 12231"]}