A re-description of the fossil damselfly Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Eolestidae n. fam.) with description of new taxa from the Eocene of North America
Author
Greenwalt, Dale E.
Author
Bechly, Günter
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-11-24
3887
2
138
156
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3887.2.2
395faf4e-7cb0-45b0-9f1a-348da32744f4
1175-5326
251053
D9275063-BD74-498E-B504-1421B50114A5
Family
Eolestidae
n. fam.
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Type
genus.
Eolestes
Cockerell, 1940
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Diagnosis.
1) Pterostigma length ≥
3 x
width; 2) Oblique “
O
” crossvein present; 3) Postnodal crossveins mostly aligned; 4) MA slightly zigzagged distal of the nodus; 5) Ax2 at or just distal of the arculus; 6) Discoidal cell closed and its posterior internal angle acute; 7) IR2 and
RP
3/4 origin closer to the arculus than the nodus; 8) IR1-
RP
2,
RP
2-IR2 and
RP
3/4-MA fields with ≥ two supplementary longitudinal sectors; 9) MA-CuA (cubital) field with ≥ two supplementary longitudinal sectors; 10) IR2-
RP
3/4 field not expanded distally.