taxonID	type	description	language	source
1276B111B55CFF8B441D1AE3FDE92E4E.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Libanophlebotomites ramyi sp. nov., by present designation.	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55CFF8B441D1AE3FDE92E4E.taxon	etymology	Etymology. After Libanos = Lebanon in Greek “ Λίβανος ” + Phlebotomites, the fossil phlebotomine fossil genus found from Lebanese and Burmese ambers. Gender neutral.	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55CFF8B441D1AE3FDE92E4E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Head slightly ellipsoid without bump on occiput; antennae with 14 flagellomeres plus a small apical diminutive one (apiculus); well-rounded eyes without eyebridge; maxillary palps five-segmented with palpomeres II and III longest; well-developed mouthparts with sharp piercing mandibles and laciniae; wing with round apex; radial and medial forks long, almost at same level where R 1 reaches costal margin; basal radial cell developed but relatively shorter than in other Cretaceous phlebotomines; legs very slightly shorter than the body length; this last character is unique in phlebotomine and usually present in psychodine, trichomyiine and sycoracine.	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55FFF8A47BF1D31FA3C2D2A.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 6)	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55FFF8A47BF1D31FA3C2D2A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet is in honor of Ramy Maalouf, son of one of us (MM).	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55FFF8A47BF1D31FA3C2D2A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. As for the genus (vide supra). Locality and horizon. Qanat Bakish, Baskinta; Caza (= District) El-Maten; Mouhafazet (= Governorate) Mount Lebanon; central Lebanon (pictures of the site and geological map are given in Maksoud et al., 2021: 368, fig. 1), lower Barremian (Granier et al., 2016; Maksoud et al., 2017, 2021).	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55FFF8A47BF1D31FA3C2D2A.taxon	type_taxon	Type material. Female holotype specimen QBC 42 A (Maalouf collection) from Qanat Bakish, Baskinta outcrop (central Lebanon), deposited in the Museum of Natural History of the Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Fanar, Lebanon.	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
1276B111B55FFF8A47BF1D31FA3C2D2A.taxon	description	Description. Head 0.280 mm long (without mouthparts) (Fig. 2 A); mouthparts well developed (0.15 mm long), with sharp and elongate mandibles and laciniae (Fig. 2 B), palp 0.325 mm long, with five palpomeres (Fig. 3 A, B), with palpomeres II and III longest, palpomeres I – V lengths respectively 0.038 - 0.091 - 0.088 - 0.047 - 0.061 mm; eyes rounded, 0.18 mm of diameter; antenna 1.070 mm long, with 15 flagellomeres (Fig. 4 A, B); first flagellomere comparatively short, almost as long as following flagellomere; last flagellomere (apiculus) short and drop like (Fig. 4 A, B); flagellomere I – XV lengths respectively: 0.150 - 0.093 - 0.093 - 0.087 - 0.081 - 0.075 - 0.075 - 0.068 - 0.068 - 0.059 - 0.056 - 0.050 - 0.050 - 0.050 - 0.015; scape nearly cylindrical, 0.050 mm long. Pedicel ellipsoid, 0.093 mm long; all flagellomeres bearing curved setae, ascoids are not discernable. Thorax 0.820 mm long, 0.500 mm high, not well preserved; proscutum and scutum not strongly gibbous; legs slightly shorter than entire body; tibiae of forelegs each with at least three strong and long setae aligned along the inner side. Wing 1.420 mm long, 0.450 mm wide, hyaline (Fig. 5 A, B); humeral vein reaching costal margin; subcostal vein (Sc) distally fused with R 1, 0.450 mm from wing base, and with crossvein reaching costal margin; R 1 reaching costal margin 0.960 mm from wing base; Rs four-branched, with all its branches extending to wing margin; R 2 and R 3 separating 0.930 mm distally; R 4 and R 5 almost straight, reaching wing margin respectively at 1.400 and 1.410 mm apically; M 1 and M 2 bifurcating 0.900 mm distally, reaching wing margin respectively at 1.400 and 1.320 mm; M 1 distally nearly straight; M 2 slightly shorter than M 1; M 3 reaching wing margin at 1.150 mm from wing base; M 4 [CuA 1] reaching wing margin 1.010 mm distad wing base. CuA [CuA 2] (Cu after Byers et al., 1989; Krzemiński & Krzemińska, 2003) short and week reaching posterior margin of wing. All main veins and wing margin bearing long macrotrichiae. Halteres 0.300 mm long; knob fusiform 0.125 mm long. Abdomen 0.930 mm long including genital appendages, dorsal surfaces of all abdominal segments bearing few setae. Female genital appendages (Fig. 6 A, B) with cercus elliptic (0.097 mm long); male unknown.	en	AZAR, DANY, MAALOUF, MOUNIR, MAKSOUD, SIBELLE (2022): Libanophlebotomites ramyi, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoentomology 5 (4): 340-346, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.4.6
