Valid Names Results

Magnilens Vea & Grimaldi, 2015 (incertae_sedis)

Magnilens Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 45. Type species: Magnilens glaesaria Vea & Grimaldi . accepted valid name
Magnaelentes Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 78;. . misspelling of genus name

Systematics: Magnilens definitely belongs to the taxa bearing a row of multiple simple eyes. This genus seems most similar to Recent Puto with the following characters: the long antennal setae, the 2-segmented tarsus, with similar tibial spurs present ventrally and more numerous toward tarsus, presumable glandular pouches on abdominal segment VIII, each with two wax filaments, and the subtriangular, elongate penial sheath with a narrow aedeagus. However, significant differences also occur: the ocular sclerite bears very large and protruding eyes (vs. small round eyes in Puto), hamulohalteres bear two hamuli (vs. four hamuli), the tarsal digitules are undifferentiated (vs. differentiated), the claw denticles are absent (vs. present), the aedeagus is pointed apically (vs. bifurcated). The phylogenetic results based on morphological characters retrieved Magnilens as sister genus to Solicoccus (Labiococcidae) described in New Jersey amber (Koteja, 2000b) but not closely related to Putoidae.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations in Vea & Grimaldi, 2015.