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Xiphos vani Vea & Grimaldi, 2015 (incertae_sedis: Xiphos)

Nomenclatural History

• Xiphos vani Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 40. Type data: LEBANON: Central Lebanon: Mdeyrij/Hammana: Caza Baabda: Mouhafazet Jabal Loubnon. Lower Cretaceous.. Holotype, male, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Notes: Alate male, in a 6.5 × 5 × 0.5 yellow, transparent, polished amber piece, embedded in Canada balsam and mounted in epoxy between two coverslips; specimen very well preserved with both wings spread, abdomen obstructed by a large air bubble;

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• Structure: Body small but robust, head with two compound eyes bearing 55–60 ommatidia , ocelli found laterally; antennae filiform, weakly trinodose, undifferentiated setae on apical segment; ventral ridges forming a five-armed star, narrow on first 1/2 anterior of head; prescutum oval but horizontally elongate; scutum with an oval membranous area medially, scutellum triangular; forewings with a subcostal ridge, cubital and posterior flexing patch; legs slender, with 1-segmented tarsus, tarsal digitules clavate but claw digitule absent; dorsal abdominal segments VII and VIII with each a row of 10 tubular ducts; penial sheath extremely elongate. (Vea & Grimaldi, 2015)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and photographs in Vea & Grimaldi, 2015.

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