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Xiphos Vea & Grimaldi, 2015 (incertae_sedis)

Xiphos Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 39. Type species: Xiphos vani Vea & Grimaldi . accepted valid name

Systematics: Assorted features suggest a close relationship with Xylococcidae and related families: the body shape, head with compound eyes, elongate antennae without particular setal differentiation, the wing shape, and the dorsal metathoracic prescutum oval and elongate shaped, triangular scutellum. However, Xiphos also possesses a peculiar combination of characters. The presence of a membranous area medially on the scutum is found in Coelostomidiidae and Monophlebidae, and the two lateral areas on the corners of the triangular scutellum is characteristic of the Recent Callipappidae, Coelostomidiidae, and Monophlebidae (but also found in extinct Grohnidae, which was described as a xylococcid-like family). Xiphos cannot be assigned to any of these families due to the differences the morphological phylogenetic analysis indicates that Xiphos is sister group to the extinct lineage composed of Alacrena , Lebanococcus , and Kozarius Therefore, Xiphos does not seem to be related to xylococcid-like families. (Vea & Grimaldi, 2015)
General Remarks: Detailed description and photographs in Vea & Grimaldi, 2015.

VeaGr2015: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, pp. 39-40, 70
WilliaDe2020: taxonomy, pp. 199