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Undulopsychopsis
''Undulopsychopsis'' is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family silky lacewing family Psychopsidae. The genus is solely known from a Cretaceous fossil found in China. Currently the genus is composed of a single species, ''Undulopsychopsis alexi''.
==History and classification==
''Undulopsychopsis alexi'' is known only from one fossil, the part and counterpart holotype, specimen number CYNB044, which is housed in the collections of the Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. The specimen is preserved as a compression fossil in silty yellow to grayish mudstone, dating from the Lower Barremian to Upper Aptian in age, which was recovered from outcrops of the Yixian Formation.〔 ''Undulopsychopsis'' was first studied by the paleoentomologists Yuanyuan Peng and Dong Ren from the Capital Normal University in Beijing with Xiaodong Wang from Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark and Vladimir N. Makarkin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Their 2011 type description of the new genus and species was published in the online journal ''ZooKeys''. The genus name ''Undulopsychopsis'' was coined by the researchers as a combination of the silky lacewing type genus ''Psychopsis'' and the Late Latin word ''undula'' meaning "small wave" which is in reference to the distinctly wavy nature of the wing margins.〔 The specific epithet ''alexi'' is in honor of the distinguished Russian paleoentomologist Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn.〔
The most distinct feature of ''Undulopsychopsis'' is the unique undulation of the wing margins, a feature not seen in any other Psychopsidae genus.〔 The branching vein structure seen in ''Undulopsychopsis'' is most similar to the Early through Late Cretaceous genus ''Kagapsychops'' which has been found in Kazakhstan and Japan. The two genera can be distinguished by the overall size of the species, with ''Kagapsychops continentalis'' being two times as long in the forewing then ''Undulopsychopsis alexi''. ''Kagapsychops'' also possesses a radial space with a graded group of crossveins.〔 The combination of costal space which lacks numerous crossveins, along with the multi-branched Rs1 and 1A veins, is a feature set found in another extinct Neuropteran family, Osmylopsychopidae. This similarity lead Peng and team to only tentatively place ''Undulopsychopsis'' into Psychopsidae, with the caveat that a number of the genera in Psychopsidae should be redescribed to clarify their family affiliation.〔
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