Paraksenocellia australis Makarkin et al., 2019

Jepson, James E. & Makarkin, Vladimir N., 2023, Fossil Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera and Raphidioptera) from the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation, Montana, USA, Zootaxa 5306 (4), pp. 427-444 : 440

Paraksenocellia australis Makarkin et al., 2019

Fig. 8

Type material. Holotype USNM PAL 625900 , deposited in USNM. A complete hind wing .

Type locality and horizon. Middle Fork of the Flathead River , between Paola and Stanton Creeks approximately 17 miles south of West Glacier; the Coal Creek Member of the Kishenehn Formation, north-western Montana, U.S.A. The Middle Eocene (Luteian).

Remarks. Paraksenocellia includes two Eocene species, P. borealis Makarkin et al., 2019 from the mid-Ypresian Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, near Smithers, British Columbia, Canada (type species) and P. australis . This is the oldest genus in Inocelliidae , and possesses some rare character states for the family (see Makarkin et al. 2019 for discussion).

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FIGURE 8. Paraksenocellia australis Makarkin et al., 2019, holotype USNM PAL 625900 (hind wing). Scale bar 2 mm.