Psyche
Volume 102, Issue 3-4, Pages 187-193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/23626
A New Fossil Snake-Fly Species from Baltic Amber (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae)
Department of Entomology, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Received 9 February 1995
Copyright © 1995 Michael S. Engel.
Abstract
A new species of inocelliid snake-fly, Fibla carpenteri, is described and figured frorn Middle to Upper Eocene Baltic amber. The species belongs to the nominate subgenus and is the largest amber snake-fly currently known. The aberrant fossil species Inocellia peculiaris is transferred to a new genus, EIectrinocellia, and placed in a new subfamily, the Electrinocelliinae, sister to the remainder of the Inocelliidae.