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Alavesia hadroceria Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new combination
No full textAlavesia hadroceria (Poinar and Vega), new combination Neoalavesia hadroceria Poinar and Vega, 2020: 2. DIAGNOSIS: A large species (wing length 2.8 mm), distinguished by scape longer than pedicel; forefemur with row of long ventral setae; CuA straight, angled obliquely outward; R 4+5 parallel to M 1+2 slightly diverging at apices; CuA+CuP strongly arched on apical third. REMARKS: No specimens of this recently described species were discovered or identified. The report of a gelatinous deposit or possible spermatophore attached to the tip of abdomen of the holotype (Poinar and Vega, 2020, figs. 1, 8) is merely an air bubble.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on page 15, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1
No full text“Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography,” by Richard Lingeman
“Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis’s Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal,” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
“Society and Foundation Join to Sponsor Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“The Reconstruction of Minnesota’s Main Street,” by Jacqueline Koenig
“A Diary of the Sinclair Lewis Conference,” by Jacqueline Koenig
“A Bed and Breakfast at Twin Farms,” by Michael Frank
“Vermont’s Award-Winning Twin Farms,” by Jerry Weil
“Lewis’s Early Fiction Still Resonates Today,” rev. of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, ed. by Anthony Di Renzo, by Linda Laird Giedl
“At Last,” rev. of Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, A Collector’s and Scholar’s Guide to Identification by Stephen R. Pastore, by Daniel Chabris
“Even at 70, Elmer Gantry is Wickedly Funny: A Satirical Look at Evangelism Lewis-Style,” by Roger K. Miller
“Sauk Centre Welcomes Lewis’s Granddaughter,” by Roberta Olson
“Writer’s Hometown Showers Granddaughter Lesley Lewis with Celebrity Status,” by Kris Bergquist
“Nobel Love Letters,” by Kevin Duchschere
“Sinclair Lewis Essay Winners Awarded Scholarships,” includes essays by Rebecca Ann Stepan (Grand Prize winner) and Sabrina Marthaler (1st Runner Up)
Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the Sinclair Lewis Conference:
“Babbitt: The Literary Dimension,” by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
“A Manless Novel in a Manly Time,” by Todd Michael Stanley
“Sinclair Lewis on the Nineties,” by Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University
“Neil Kingsblood: The Not so Tragic Mulatto,” by Jean Mullin Yonke
“Literary and Racial Tensions in Kingsblood Royal,” by M. Ellen DuPree, University of Nevada, Reno
“Vision, Progress, and Regular Guys: George F. Babbitt’s Rhetorical Ideals,” by Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
“Jazzing Up American History: Using Babbitt and Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s,” by Jane Lamm Carroll, College of St. Catherine
“It Can’t Happen Here: The Liberal Imagination in an ‘Age of Ideology,\u27” by Jonathan Veitch, New School for Social Research
“Iron George: Myths of Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Mantrap,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
“From Stereotyping to Social Critique: Babbitt‘s Italian Fortune During the Fascist Years,” by Valerio C. Ferme, University of California, Berkeley
Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
“Babbitt: The Middle-Class Malcontent,” by Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology
“Heinrich Mann’s Der Untertan: ‘A German Main Street’ and More,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondalehttps://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/slsn/1035/thumbnail.jp
PeerPigeon: A Web Application to Support Generalised Peer Review
No full textPeer Review (also known as Peer Assessment) is an important technique in learning, but can be difficult to support through e-learning due to the complexity and variety of peer review processes. In this paper we present PeerPigeon, a Web 2.0 style application that supports generalised Peer Review by using a canonical model of Peer Review based on a Peer Review Pattern consisting of Peer Review Cycles, each defined in terms of Peer Review Transforms. We also demonstrate how PeerPigeon makes use of a Domain Specific Language based on Ruby to define these plans, and thus cope with the irreducible complexity of the flow of documents around a peer network
Alavesia Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020
No full textKEY TO MALES OF BURMESE AMBER FOSSIL SPECIES OF ALAVESIA 1. Aristalike stylus greatly lengthened, at least twice length of postpedicel, with apical expansion or flag (fig. 1G, H)......................................................................2 – Aristalike stylus shorter than postpedicel, without modified apex..........................3 2. Palpus narrow and elongate (figs. 9E, 14C); apical aristalike stylus 2 × length of postpedicel; apical flag darkened (figs. 1H, 14B, C)............................................ A. longsistylata – Palpus flattened and elongate (fig. 9C, D); aristalike stylus more than 2.9 × length of postpedicel; apical flag light colored (figs. 8F, 13D).............................. A. longicornuta, sp. nov. 3. Cell dm very short, crossvein dm-m opposite apex of cell bm (figs. 2B, C, 3C)...............4 – Cell dm longer, crossvein dm-m clearly positioned beyond apex of cell bm..................6 4. M 1+2 strongly arched towards R 4+5 (fig. 2B, C)...........................................5 – M 1+2 gradually arched to wing margin (fig. 3C)..... Alavesia pankowskiorum, sp. nov. [in part] 5. Smaller size (wing length: 0.75 mm); postpedicel slightly curved and gradually tapered apically (fig. 1B).................................................... Alavesia brevipennae, sp. nov. – Larger size (wing length: 1.1 mm); postpedicel straight and tapered on apical fourth (fig. 1C).. Alavesia myanmarensis 6. M 1+2 and R 4+5 divergent apically (figs. 2D, 3D–F, 4A, B)...................................7 – M 1+2 and R 4+5 nearly parallel apically (figs. 2A, E, 3B)...................................10 7. Wing with distinctly narrowed apex; cell dm long and slender (fig. 4A)...................... Alavesia spinosa, sp. nov. – Wing with rounded apex; cell dm short and expanded apically (figs. 2D, 3D–F, 4B)..........8 8. Wing less than 1.5 mm (fig. 3D–F); postpedicel narrow lanceolate to narrow triangular (fig. 1I–K).......................................... Alavesia pankowskiorum, sp. nov. [in part] – Wing more than 1.5 mm (figs. 2D, 4B); postpedicel large and broad (fig. 1D, M).............9 9. Wing length 1.8 mm (fig. 2D)................................. Alavesia lanceolata, sp. nov. – Wing length 2.1 mm (fig. 4B)...................................... Alavesia zigrasi, sp. nov. 10. Scape longer than pedicel............................................. Alavesia hadroceria – Scape shorter than pedicel...........................................................11 11. CuA recurved, aligned with apex of cell bm (fig. 2A, E); wing short (less than 2.0 mm), narrow or rounded...........................................................................12 – CuA arched distally, extending beyond cell bm (fig. 3B); wing very long (3.0 mm), narrow and linear.......................................................... Alavesia magna, sp. nov. 12. Wing apex pointed (fig. 2A); postpedicel narrow and fusiform (fig. 1A); stylus length 0.46 × postpedicel....................................................... Alavesia angusta, sp. nov. – Wing apex broadly rounded (fig. 2E); postpedicel elongate triangle (fig. 1F); stylus length 0.54 × postpedicel...................................................... Alavesia latala, sp. nov.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on page 36, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
Alavesia brevipennae Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new species
No full textAlavesia brevipennae, new species Figures 1B, 2B, 8D, 12B, C DIAGNOSIS: Tiny species (fig. 12B, C), wing length 0.75 mm; postpedicel 2.3 × longer than aristalike stylus, slightly curved; wing shortened, rounded, and broad (L/ W 1.75); M 1+2 strongly arched, this vein and M 4 very divergent; CuA arched apically, CuA+CuP weakened, not reaching wing margin, M 4 closer to CuA+CuP than M 1+2. DESCRIPTION: Male. Coloration not preserved. Head: Scape and pedicel quadrate, subequal in size and length. Postpedicel elongate, straplike, slightly curved, gradually tapered apically, 2.3 × longer than stylus (fig. 1B). Stylus with two basal articles, short (fig. 8D), without apical flaglike expansion; length 0.32 × that of postpedicel. Mouthparts very short; palpus short, not projecting. Thorax: Chaetotaxy thickened, in numerous rows (not clearly visible): 2 anterior and 1 posterior postpronotal setae; 4 notopleural setae of variable lengths, 1 postsutural supraalar seta; 1 postalar seta; 2 pairs of scutellar setae. Legs: Most setae thickened. Forecoxa with short erect anterior setae; anteroapical setae longer and stouter. Forefemur with anteroventral and posteroventral row of short setae. Mid and hind femora with anteroventral row of short setae. Mid and hind coxae with 2–3 stout lateral setae on apical half. Tibiae with biserial row of short, stout ventral setae; apex of tibiae with long, apical ventral seta; hind tibia with several dorsal setae, length about half width of tibia. Wing (wing length 0.75 mm) (fig. 2B): shortened and rounded; costa terminating slightly beyond M 1+2; Sc nearly reaching costal margin; R 4+5 closely associated with M 1+2; M 1+2 arched, strongly divergent from R 4+5 distally; cell dm very short, crossvein r-m nearly opposite apex of cell bm; M 4 straight to wing margin; apex of M 4 closer to CuA+CuP than M 1+2; CuA arched; apex of cell cua convex, length of cell cua subequal to cell bm; CuA+CuP mostly straight, strongly curved subapically to wing margin. Abdomen: Setae short, without distinct posteromarginal setae. Segments 1–5 broad. Terminalia and remaining segments damaged and partially obscured. TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, male, AMNH Bu-494 (AMNH). ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is from the Latin penna (wing, feather) and brevis (short), referring to the shortened wing that characterizes this species.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on page 15, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
Alavesia angusta Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new species
No full textAlavesia angusta, new species Figures 1A, 2A, 12A DIAGNOSIS: Postpedicel slender, fusiform, L/ W 4.47; wing slender, L/ W 2.8; M 1+2 and R 4 +5 parallel for entire lengths; crossvein bm-cu at midlength of cell dm; crossvein dm-m slanted; CuA straight, directed to wing base, in line with crossvein m-cu; cell dm extending well beyond apex of cell cua. DESCRIPTION: Male. Coloration not preserved. Head: Scape small, goblet-shaped; pedicel quadrate; postpedicel narrow, almost fusiform, L/ W 4.47 (figs. 1A, 12A); stylus short, length 0.46 × the postpedicel, with 2 small basal articles. Palpus light, extended slightly beyond level of proboscis. Thorax: Chaetotaxy: acrostichals fine, short, in biserial rows; dorsocentrals similar to acrostichals, ending in pair of long, fine prescutellars; 2 short postpronotal setae; 4 short, fine anterior notopleural setae, 2 large posterior notopleural setae; 1 postsutural supraalar seta; 1 finer postalar seta; 3 pairs scutellar setae, apical pair longest, upright, crossed for ~0.5 × their length. Legs: Forecoxa with many short setae on anterior surface. Forefemur with ventral row ~15 short, stiff setae. Tibiae with long, apical ventral seta. Hind tibia with dense dorsal row of setae, length about half width of tibia; posterior surface with fine, brushy setae. Wing: Length 1.4 mm (fig. 2A); C terminating slightly beyond M 1+2; Sc nearly reaching costal margin; R 4+5 parallel to M 1+2 for entire lengths; crossvein r-m slightly distal to middle of cell dm; apex of M 4 slightly closer to M 1+2 than to CuA+CuP; CuA strongly recurved, in line with bm-m; apex of cell cua truncate, cell cua shorter than cell bm; CuA+CuP slightly curved. Abdomen: No longer than thorax; setae short, without differentiated posteromarginal setae. Segments 1–5 broad, other segments retracted into segment 5. Terminalia well preserved in holotype (not illustrated): Epandrium complete dorsally, U-shaped, with fringelike row of five long setae on ventral margin; cercus flat, broad, scalelike, meeting medially. Surstylus long, slightly curved (as in A. magna, sp. nov.); postgonites + phallus as for most other species: thicker at base, hook-shaped, bend in middle, phallus downturned. TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, male, USNM PAL 726867 (USNM). ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is from the Latin angustus (narrow, slender), in reference to the narrow wing and cell cua.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on page 14, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
Two literary responses to American society in the early modern era : a comparison of selected novels by Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair in relation to their portrayal of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the problem of labour, 1900-1929
No full textThis thesis analyses the responses of Theodore Dreiser and Upton
Sinclair to American society in the early modern era through their
treatment of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the
labour problem. The role of Dreiser and Sinclair as critics of American
society has often been dealt with and highly praised. Although the
thesis also discusses this particular aspect, its main purpose lies with
the comparison of Dreiser's and Sinclair's ideological and literary
responses to these socio-economic issues.
The study starts with an account of the literary climate of the
time. It shows that American literature at the close of the nineteenth
century and in the early beginning of the twentieth century stems from
the socio-economic and political unrest of the Gilded Age. American
writers demonstrated an increasing concern with the evil consequences of
the new technological development and felt it was their duty to record
the prevailing conditions and express their reactions. They used the
realist technique to describe things as they were and adopted naturalism
to give a scientific study of their society. As a mirror of American
society at the outset of the twentieth century, American fiction
reflected the unrest and contradictions of this period and gave a clearer
insight into the inner responses of American writers to the new order.
It revealed that in spite of a general feeling of anxiety and disillusionment
among American writers, individual reactions against the
current events were diverse. They varied from an attitude of resignation
and pessimistic speculations about America's future to an active desire
to break rising capitalism and to reform American society. This analysis
of Dreiser's and Sinclair's responses to some of the problems of America
has been placed to a large extent in this divided socio-economic and
literary climate. Thus while the comparison shows the two writers'
strong indictment of American society, it also shows two distinct
ideological and literary responses to its upheavals.
Then the main body of the study divides into six chapters. Chapter
one compares the socio-political and literary views of Dreiser and
Sinclair and gives, thus, an idea about the spirit with which they
treated their subject matter and the course of their literary works.
This chapter also deals with the relationship between Dreiser and
Sinclair in an attempt to find traces of a debate between the two writers
on the socio-economic and literary situations in America. The following
chapters focus on Dreiser's and Sinclair's treatment of the immigrant,
the city, the business tycoon, women, and the labour problem. Each of
these chapters starts with a brief historical account of the subject of
study as a background to the fiction. Then it shows Dreiser's and
Sinclair's respective concern with, and experience of, the problem, and
moves onto the analysis of their literary treatment of it.
The aim of this thesis has been to show that no matter what their
artistic, ideological, and philosophical beliefs, American writers in the
years of unrest which followed the large-scale industrialisation in their
country, were called to assume their social responsibilities and
contribute to the cause of social improvement
Alavesia longicornuta Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new species
No full textAlavesia longicornuta, new species Figures 1G, 2F, 5A, 8F, 9C–D, 13D, 14A DIAGNOSIS: Males of this species are distinctive, characterized by greatly lengthened aristalike stylus (figs. 13D, 14A) (2.9 × length of postpedicel), bearing a light, apical flaglike expansion; elongate and flattened palpi; CuA strongly recurved, in line with m-cu; CuA+CuP sharply curved subapically to wing margin. Distinguished from males of A. longistylata by slightly longer stylus with a light (vs. dark) apical “flag,” broader palpus, longer and narrower wing; cell cua significantly thicker. DESCRIPTION: Male. Coloration, except stylus, not preserved. Head: Scape and pedicel quadrate, scape longer than pedicel. Postpedicel greatly lengthened, L/ W 4.0, tapered on apical two-thirds, longer than head height. Stylus with two small basal articles, with apical aristalike stylus 2.9 × length of postpedicel (fig. 1G); apex of stylus with light, oval, flaglike flattened expansion (fig. 8F). Palpus bladelike (fig. 9C, D), flattened, projecting, strongly tapered, with fine setae ventrally, length about subequal to eye height. Thorax: Chaetotaxy thickened (fig. 5A): biserial row of short acrostichal setae; dorsocentral setae similar to acrostichals, ending in pair of long prescutellar dorsocentral setae; 2 anterior and 1 posterior postpronotal setae; 4 anterior notopleural setae of variable lengths, 1 posterior notopleural seta; 1 postsutural supraalar seta; 1 postalar seta; 2–3 pairs of scutellar setae. Legs: Forecoxa with short erect anterior setae. Femora with anteroventral row of short setae. Tibiae with long, apical ventral seta. Hind tibia with dorsal row of setae, length about half width of tibia; posterior face clothed with brush of fine setae. Wing: Length 2.2 mm (fig. 2F), costa terminating slightly beyond M 1+2; Sc nearly reaching costal margin; R 4+5 parallel to M 1+2 until near wing margin; crossvein r-m opposite near middle of cell dm; apex of M 4 at equal distance between M 1+2 and CuA+CuP; CuA straight, turned toward wing base, aligned with bm-m; apex of cell cua truncate, length of cell cua shorter than cell bm; CuA+CuP mostly straight, sharply curved subapically to wing margin. Abdomen: Setae short, without distinct posteromarginal setae. Segments 1–5 broad, remaining segments retracted with segment 5. Terminalia obscured by bubble. TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, male, JZC Bu-556 (AMNH). Paratype: USNM PAL 726871 (1 male, USNM). ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is from the Latin cornutus (“horned, bearing horns”), in reference to the elongate aristalike stylus.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on pages 17-25, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
Alavesia magna Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new species
No full textAlavesia magna, new species Figures 1E, 3B, 5B, 6D–E, 8C–D, 10A, 11B–C, 15A–B DIAGNOSIS: One of two largest species of genus (fig. 15A, B), wing length 3.0 mm; wing linear, long and slender, L/ W 2.97; R 4+5 and M 1+2 entirely parallel; apex of CuA not recurved; postpedicel slender, L/ W 3.45. Male genitalia: surstylus very slender, digitiform, with small dorsal lobe bearing stiff, short seta; postgonites+phallus long, phallus downcurved, minutely feathered at tip. DESCRIPTION: Coloration: Yellowish portions of body: palpus, labellum, much of coxae (also with light brown portions), stem of halter, proximal halves of femora, tergites 6–8; remaining areas light to dark brown (fig. 15A, B). Female paratype slightly darker (preservational artifact?). Wing lightly tinted yellowish on costal half. Male. Head: Scape short, caplike; pedicel short, caplike, with distal ring of setulae. Postpedicel large, lanceolate (fig. 1E), tapered in distal half, L/ W 3.45; stylus of moderate length, 0.45 × L postpedicel, with 2 minute basal articles (fig. 8C, D). Palpus very small; labellum bulbous, with ~7–8 pseudotracheae. Thorax: Macrosetae thickened (fig. 5B); acrostichals very fine, small, in irregular biserial rows; dorsocentral setae slightly larger than acrostichals, gradually longer posteriad, ending in pair of long prescutellar setae (longest setae on thorax). Two postpronotal setae (slightly larger than setulae); 8 notopleural setae of variable lengths, 3 posterior ones longest; 1 postsutural supraalar seta; 1 postalar seta; 2–3 pairs of scutellar setae, apical pair largest, crossed at midlength. Legs (fig. 11B, C): Forecoxa with short, erect setae on anterior surface, longer ones apically. Forefemur with anteroventral row of ~40 small, spinulelike setae; short row of such setae near apices of mid and hind femora. Tibiae with long, apical ventral setae: 1–2–2. Hind tibia with 2 dorsolateral rows of thicker setae, lengths ~0.7 × width of tibia; posterior surface with slight brush of finer setae. Wing: Length 3.0 mm (figs. 3B, 10A). Vein C terminating slightly beyond M 1+2; Sc nearly touching costal margin; R 4+5 entirely parallel to M 1+2, both very straight, crossvein r-m at apical 1/3 of cell dm; apex of M 4 about equidistant between M 1+2 and CuA+CuP; CuA arched; apex of cell cua acute, cell cua longer than cell bm; CuA+CuP virtually straight. Abdomen: Longer than thorax; setae short, no differentiation of posteromarginal setae on tergites or sternites. Segments 1–4 very broad (2 very large), remaining segments much smaller, partially retracted. Terminalia (fig. 6D, E): observable dorsally and laterally. Epandrium complete dorsally, with setulae and marginal fringe of ~8–10 long, fine setae on ventral margin. Surstylus long, slender, digitate, with small dorsal lobe bearing small spinelike seta, apically with minute toothlike apical seta that points inward; mesal surface of surstylus with microtrichia. Postgonites highly integrated, projecting posteriad; phallus abruptly bent ventrad, apex bifid and finely feathered. Female terminalia telescoping; cerci exposed and deflexed downward. TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype male AMNH Bu-KL2-7. Paratype, female USNM PAL 726873. ETYMOLOGY: In reference to the body size, being one of the largest of all the Burmese amber species, along with A. longicornuta.Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961) on pages 26-28, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, http://zenodo.org/record/537039
Alavesia latala Sinclair & Grimaldi 2020, new species
No full text<i>Alavesia latala</i>, new species Figures 1F, 2E, 13C <p> DIAGNOSIS: Wing short, broad, L/ W 2.15, apex broadly rounded (fig. 13C); R 4 +5 and M 1 parallel for entire length; apex of CuA strongly recurved, anal lobe absent. Postpedicel triangular, L/ W 2.48, arista 0.54 <b>×</b> length of postpedicel.</p> <p> DESCRIPTION: <i>Male</i>. <b>Coloration</b> not preserved. <b>Head:</b> Scape short, setose; pedicel slightly larger, quadrate, postpedicel an elongate triangle, lanceolate (fig. 1F), L/ W 2.48; stylus relatively short, thick, 0.54 <b>×</b> length of postpedicel, with two minute basal articles.</p> <p> <b>Thorax:</b> Macrosetae thickened; acrostichals not fully visible; dorsocentrals ending in stout pair of long prescutellars; postpronotal lobe with 3 short setae; notopleurals not fully visible, but 3 well-developed ones visible; 1 postsutural supraalar seta, 1 postalar seta; 3 pairs scutellar setae, apical pair upturned and crossed, lengths ~2 <b>×</b> that of lateral-most pair.</p> <p> <b>Legs:</b> Forecoxa with dense setae on anterior surface. Forefemur with some fine ventral spinules, but complete distribution not visible; mid and hind femora with spinelike setae near apex only. Tibiae with long apical, ventral seta(e): 1-2-2. Hind tibia with dorsal row of ~6 thicker setae, lengths about half width of tibia; posterior surface with short brush of fine setulae.</p> <p> <b>Wing:</b> Length 1.55 mm (fig. 2E), vein C terminating slightly beyond M 1+2; Sc nearly reaching costal margin; R 4+5 perfectly parallel to M 1+2; crossvein r-m at middle of cell dm; apex of M 4 equidistant between M 1+2 and CuA+CuP; CuP recurved, in line with bm-cu; apex of cell cua truncate; cell cua shorter than cell bm; vein A well developed but incomplete; anal lobe very narrow.</p> <p> <b>Abdomen:</b> About same length as thorax; setation mostly not visible. Terminalia mostly not visible, but ventral margins of epandrium with fringe of long setae; surstyli very slender, digitiform.</p> <p>TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, male: AMNH Bu-1476. The fly is complete but preserved in turbid amber (fig. 13C), which obscures some details (i.e., of genitalia). Despite the preservation, the distinctive wing shape and venation allowed a reliable diagnosis of this species.</p> <p> ETYMOLOGY: In reference to the broad wing, from Latin <i>latus</i> (broad) and <i>ala</i> (wing).</p>Published as part of <i>Sinclair, Bradley J. & Grimaldi, David A., 2020, Cretaceous diversity of the relict genus Alavesia Waters and Arillo (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae), pp. 1-40 in American Museum Novitates 2020 (3961)</i> on page 17, DOI: 10.1206/3961.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5370399">http://zenodo.org/record/5370399</a>
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