A new babinskaiid lacewing (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontoidea) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Abstract

Summary: Electrobabinskaia nelin. sp., a new species of the lacewing family Babinskaiidae, is described and illustrated from an individual preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from Tanai, northern Myanmar. Electrobabinskaia nelin. sp. preserves nearly all of the known characters used to circumscribe the family and genus, and is unique among the genus Electrobabinskaia for possessing a forewing venation well-developed, i.e. RP densely branched with six branches, all of them with a marginal fork; CuA branched on distal half, with seven posterior branches, all with a marginal fork; hind wing with MP1 pectinately branched into four branches, MP2 with 11 branches, most of them forked.