Diverse new Middle Jurassic Osmylopsychopidae (Neuroptera) from China shed light on the classification of psychopsoids

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A well-preserved diverse fauna of fossil neuropterans of the family Osmylopsychopidae has been discovered at the Middle Jurassic locality of Daohugou, China. Daopsychops dissectus gen. et sp. nov., D. clausus gen. et sp. nov., D. inanis gen. et sp. nov., D. bifasciatus gen. et sp. nov., D. cubitalis gen. et sp. nov., Eupypsychops ferox gen. et sp. nov., E. confinis gen. et sp. nov., Nematopsychops unicus gen. et sp. nov., Ochropsychops multus gen. et sp. nov. and Stenopteropsychops trifasciatus gen. et sp. nov. are described. These new taxa allow a better understanding of the relationships between the psychopsoid families Osmylopsychopidae, Psychopsidae and Brongniartiellidae. The type of the latter (Brongniartiella gigas from the Late Jurassic of Germany) is redescribed. The venation of the new genera of Osmylopsychopidae shows that Brongniartiellidae is a synonym of this family. Of the genera ascribed to Brongniartiellidae, only Pseudopsychopsis belongs to Osmylopsychopidae with cert

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