New Cenozoic dragonflies from the Most Basin and Středohoří Complex volcanic area (Czech Republic, Germany)
Author
Prokop, Jakub
Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague, Praha 2, Czech Republic;
Author
Pecharová, Martina
Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Charles University in Prague, Praha 2, Czech Republic;
Author
Nel, André
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP 50, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
text
Journal of Natural History
2016
2016-05-31
50
2311
2326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1193648
journal article
21211
10.1080/00222933.2016.1193648
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cf.
Aeshna
sp.
(
Figure 3
(a, b))
Material
SMMG
Ku
398 (a nearly complete fore wing lacking base and parts along posterior margin, preserved in brown diatomite), collection of
Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden
,
Saxony
,
Germany
.
Figure 3.
cf.
Aeshna
sp. (
Aeshnidae
), (A) photograph of specimen SMMG Ku 398 (Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden coll., Germany), imprint only; (B) line drawing of fore wing. Scale bars represent 5 mm.
Age
and outcrop
Early Oligocene (Rupelian
–
Chattian),
Ústí
Formation, Středohoří Complex, Kundratice near Litoměřice (
Figure 1
),
Czech Republic
(see
Kvaček and Walther 1998
).
Description
A nearly complete fore wing, with only basal anterior area and parts along posterior wing margin missing; wing surface apparently hyaline; wing
c
.
52 mm
long (assumed from fragment) and
17.5 mm
wide; distance from estimated base to nodus
c
.
25.3 mm
; distance from nodus to wing apex,
c
.
26.6 mm
; nodus nearly midway between base and apex; distance from nodus to pterostigma
17.4 mm
; distance from pterostigma to apex about
5.6 mm
; pterostigma rather long, 4.0 mm long and
0.9 mm
wide, covering approximately five cells; pterostigmal brace obliquely aligned with proximal side of pterostigma; 20 postnodal cross-veins, not well aligned with 16 visible subpostnodal cross-veins; 12 visible antenodal crossveins of first row between C and ScP not aligned with one visible corresponding antenodal cross-veins of second row between ScP and RA; hypertriangle crossed by three or more cross-veins; median space free, partly preserved; submedian space crossed by two cross-veins, subdiscoidal triangle twocelled; discoidal triangle elongate and divided into five small cells, its costal side being
6.6 mm
long, distal side
5.9 mm
long and proximal side
2.8 mm
long; width of postdiscoidal area just behind discoidal triangle
3.4 mm
, width along posterior wing margin
7.2 mm
; three rows of cells in postdiscoidal area just distal of discoidal triangle; convex supplementary sector (trigonal planate) in postdiscoidal area, aligned with concave Mspl; Mspl well defined, undulated; two or three rows of cells between Mspl and MP and also between Mspl and MA; bulge in distal part of MA (
‘
aeshnid bulla
’
) apparently weaker than in
Aeshna zlatkokvaceki
sp. nov.
, but it is too poorly preserved to be accurately described; five preserved Bq cross-veins; oblique vein
‘
O
’
one cell distal of base of RP2; Rspl well defined and nearly straight; area between Rspl and IR2 with three rows of cells in its widest part; IR2 smoothly curved distally and asymmetrically forked 5.0 mm proximad of pterostigma, with three rows of cells between its branches; RP2 strongly curved posteriorly opposite proximal side of pterostigma; one row of cells between RP2 and anterior branch of IR2; IR1 nearly straight beginning just below proximal posterior edge of pterostigma; one row of cells between MP and CuAa in basal parts, but with about five or six along posterior wing margin; CuAa with circa six posterior branches directed towards posterior wing margin, but not preserved; cubitoanal area poorly preserved, but distinctly broad with about seven rows of cells below CuAa.