Cyttaromyia lynnae Dale E. Greenwalt &amp; Daniel J. Bickel &amp; Peter H. Kerr &amp; Gregory R. Curler &amp; Brian V. Brown &amp; Herman de Jong &amp; Scott J. Fitzgerald &amp; Torsten Dikow &amp; Michal Tkoč &amp; Christian Kehlmaier &amp; Dalton De Souza Amorim 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Greenwalt, Dale E.
name: Bickel, Daniel J.
name: Kerr, Peter H.
name: Curler, Gregory R.
name: Brown, Brian V.
name: De Jong, Herman
name: Fitzgerald, Scott J.
name: Dikow, Torsten
name: Tkoč, Michal
name: Kehlmaier, Christian
name: De Souza Amorim, Dalton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cylindrotomidae
Cyttaromyia
Cyttaromyia lynnae

description: <i>Cyttaromyia lynnae</i> De Jong, sp. nov. Figures 5, 6 <b>zoobank.org/ D2C5FED7-813C-418A-B1B4-A35C286BD427</b> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is the Latin genitive case of the first name of the wife of the author (HDJ). <b>Holotype.</b> USNM 621109, deposited in the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. <b>Type horizon.</b> Middle Eocene Coal Creek Member, Kishenehn Formation. <b>Type locality.</b> Park site, Middle Fork of the Flathead River (Pinnacle, Montana, USA). <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> This species of <i>Cyttaromyia</i> is distinguished by the presence of an additio- nal crossvein r'-m', a wide and long discal cell, four complete but relatively short medial veins, and a female terminalia with a long and curved extension of tergite 10, slender and curved cerci and broad hypogynial valves. Description Adult female (Figure 5.1), body length about 10 mm, wing length about 10 mm. Specimen preserved in dorsal view. <b>Head.</b> Eyes well-developed, large, dorsally widely separated though distance not measurable due to crushed state of head (Figure 6.3). Occiput dark brown colored. Antenna 2.4 mm long, about as long as head and thorax combined, consisting of short scape and pedicel, and slender flagellum including 14 cylindrical flagellomeres. Some verticils at base of flagellomeres preserved, distinctly shorter than length of flagellomeres. Rostrum short. Palp with third to fifth segments visible, this part measuring about 0.9 mm, third and fourth segments robust, fifth irregularly shaped and about as long as third and fourth combined (Figure 6.1). <b>Thorax.</b> Pronotum with well-developed antepronotum and broad postpronotum, scutum with visible transverse suture in posterior part. Thorax brownish in groundcolor, dark-brown on postpronotum and with broad dark-brown medial stripe and lateral sides on scutum. <b>Wings.</b> Elongate and slender, anal areas folded under in both wings (Figure 5.2-3). Pterostigma distinct, located between C and first section of R 2+3+4, dark-brown. Sc long, terminating in C well beyond level of first fork of Rs and anterior to pterostigma. The positions of crossvein sc-r and R 1, if they exist, are uncertain. Rs long, almost 2.0 mm, about 0.75 X as long as entire R 2+3+4. R 5 evenly curved towards wing margin. Crossvein r-m connecting Rs with discal cell slightly distad of first fork of Rs. Vein M long, forking at proximad end of discal cell in a long first section of M 1+3 and a short first section of M 3+4. Discal cell elongate, gradually widening towards wing margin, cell remarkably longer than apical sections of M 1 -M 4. M 1+2 shortly petiolate distad of discal cell where it forks into M 1 and M 2. Base of apical part of M 1 almost perpendicular to M 2, before turning towards apex of wing; M 1 here connected to R 5 by additional crossvein (r'- m'). Apical section of M 2 almost continuous with petiole of fork of M 1+2. M 3+4 forks at distal part of discal cell, apical section of M 4 almost continuous with M 3+4 and base of M 3 making angle of about 70 o with M 3+4 and M 4. Apical section of M 3 subsinuous from discal cell towards wing margin. Crossvein m-cu located at proximad corner of dis- cal cell. CuA only very slightly bent at point of contact with crosvein m-cu; visible part of apical section of CuA straight. Remainder of venation invisible. <b>Legs.</b> Front legs and left midleg almost completely preserved; what appears as right midleg with femur and part of tibia preserved. Femora somewhat broader at tip, apex darkened. Tibiae without visible apical spurs. No claws detected. <b>Abdomen and genitalia.</b> Abdomen, 7.6 mm long, broadening from segment one to five and from there narrowing towards ovipositor. Ovipositor preserved in lateral view, showing long curved extension of tergite ten dorsal of cerci and hypogynial valves. Cerci long, curved and rather slender, hypogynial valves shorter than cerci and broad (Figure 6.2). <b>Allotype.</b> Male unknown. <b>Syncompressions.</b> Gastropods (8). Remarks Cylindrotomidae is a small family of Tipuloidea with only nine recent genera, including 70 species (Oosterbroek, 2018). The recent genera occurring in North America are <i>Cylindrotoma</i> Macquart, 1834 (with two recent North American species), <i>Liogma</i> Osten Sacken, 1869 (1), <i>Phalacrocera</i> Schiner, 1863 (4), and <i>Triogma</i> Schiner, 1863 (1). The genera can be easily separated using wing venational characters (Alexander and Byers, 1981). In a phylogenetic analysis of both molecular and morphological data, Petersen et al. (2010) recovered this group as monophyletic and sister to Tipulinae but were unable to confidently resolve the combined group within Tipuloidea; they treat the group as a subfamily within Tipulidae. Fossil Cylindrotomidae have been described in the extant genera <i>Cylindrotoma</i> and <i>Diogma</i> Edwards, 1938 and the extinct genus <i>Cyttaromyia</i> Scudder, 1877 (Table 1) (Cockerell 1921 a, 1925, 1926; Freiwald, 1991; Freiwald and Krzemi&amp;nacute;ski, 1991; Krzemi&amp;nacute;ski, 1998; Podenas, 2000; Scudder, 1877, 1894; Séguy, 1934). All fossil Cylindrotomidae are characterized by the presence of four medial veins reaching the wing margin (recent <i>Diogma</i> always show only three medial veins). The genus <i>Cyttaromyia</i> was created by Scudder (1877) based on the apical half of an isolated wing. Scud- der redefined the genus in 1894 based on several more intact specimens from the Florissant Formation. Members of <i>Cyttaromyia</i> differ from most <i>Cylindrotoma</i> and <i>Diogma</i> (and the other recent Cylindrotomidae) by the presence of additional crossvein r'-m'. This additional crossvein connec- ting the base of M 1 with R 5 is sometimes also found in aberrant specimens of both the North American and Palaearctic subspecies of the recent <i>Cylindrotoma distinctissima</i> Meigen, 1818 (cf. Brodo, 1967, fig. 46; Peus, 1952, fig. 14) and in the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental <i>C. taiwanica</i> Alexander, 1929 (Alexander, 1929, fig. 4). Scudder (1894) described <i>Cyttaromyia</i> as lacking tibial spurs. This character state, in addition to the presence of r'-m', could more definitively define <i>Cyttaromyia</i> relative to <i>Cylindrotoma.</i> Howe- ver, <i>Cyttaromyia frelloi</i> Krzemi&amp;nacute;ski, 1998, the only specimen of the genus in Baltic amber, was described as with ”distinct tibial spurs present; single on the forelegs and midlegs, paired on hind legs. The spur of the foreleg is especially large, of a size not met till now in the Tipulidae and Limoniidae.” Tibial spurs have not been reported in the more poorly preserved compression fossils of this genus. The structure of the ovipositor of the fossil described here (Figure 6.2) shows close similarity with that known from recent <i>Cylindrotoma</i>, where tergite ten is posteriorly extended into a long, curved and apically forked extension that is positioned dorsal of the cerci (cf Brodo, 1967, figs. 21, 22; Peus, 1952, figure 7b, c, 30). Krzemi&amp;nacute;ski (1991a) previously suggested the similarity of the ovipositor of <i>Cyttaromyia</i> to that of <i>Cylindrotoma</i>. The species is placed in the genus <i>Cyttaromyia</i> because of the presence of additional crossvein r'-m', which it shares with all other species of <i>Cyttaromyia</i>. The crossvein can be present in aberrant specimens of some species of the extant genus <i>Cylindrotoma</i>. <i>Cyttaromyia lynnae</i> differs from <i>C. vahldieki</i> Freiwald, 1991, and <i>C. rayona</i> Freiwald and Krzemi&amp;nacute;ski, 1991, in not having a distinct patterning of the wings and from <i>C. frelloi, C. quievreuxi Séguy, 1934</i>, and <i>C</i>. <i>reclusa</i> Cockerell, 1925, in being female. There are numerous differences in the venation of <i>C. lynnae</i> compared to both <i>C. princetoniana</i> Scudder, 1894, and <i>C. fenestrate</i> Scudder, 1877. In the former, Rs is relatively short (Rs/R 2+3 = 1.4; 1.8 in <i>C. lynnae</i>), R 1 is distinct and the distance between the 1 st fork of M and m-cu is subequal to the length of r-m whereas that value is &lt;0.25 in <i>C. lynnae</i>. The ratio of the discal cell’s L/ W = 2.4 in <i>C. fenestrata</i> and 3.3 in <i>C. lynnae</i>. In addition, Sc terminates in C in-line with the 2 nd half of the supplemental discal cell in <i>C. fenestrata</i> but just beyond the r-m in <i>C. lynnae.</i> Cells m 1 and m 2 are equal in length in <i>C. fenestrata</i> whereas m 2 is longer in <i>C. lynnae</i>. The terminus of r-r is in line with r'-m' in <i>C. fenestrata</i> but greatly basad of r'-m' in <i>C. lynnae</i>. Given the poor preservation of <i>C. scudderi</i>, it is difficult to identify differences with respect to <i>C. lynnae</i> except perhaps the shape of the pterostigma. The venation of <i>C. obdurescens</i> Cockerell, 1925 is also very similar to <i>C. lynnae</i>, although Cockerell (1926) stated that it was “similar” to <i>C. oligocena</i> Scudder, 1894 and “may prove a synonym of <i>C. reclusa</i> ”. The reliance on slight differences in venational morphology potentially diminishes the probable status of many of the fossil <i>Cyttaromyia</i> as separate species. Brodo (1967) has figured a large degree of intraspecific variability in the venation of multiple different specimens of the extant species <i>Cylindrotoma distinctissima</i> and <i>C. tarsalis</i> Johnson, 1912, as well as in specimens from three additional related genera. Given the existence of numerous specimens of some of the North American species (for example, there are 12 specimens of <i>Cyttaromyia reclusa</i> [Brown, 1988]), it would be of interest to study the intraspecific variability in their venation patterns.
description: Published as part of <i>Dale E. Greenwalt, Daniel J. Bickel, Peter H. Kerr, Gregory R. Curler, Brian V. Brown, Herman de Jong, Scott J. Fitzgerald, Torsten Dikow, Michal Tkoč, Christian Kehlmaier &amp; Dalton De Souza Amorim, 2019, Diptera of the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation. I. Documenting of diversity at the family level, pp. 1-56 in Paleontologia Electronica 22 (2)</i> on pages 9-12, DOI: 10.26879/891, http://zenodo.org/record/3990295
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