A new, to date endemic, family of dragonfly in the mid-Cretaceous fossil fish Konservat-Lagerstätte of Haqel, Lebanon (Odonata: Anisoptera) Author Azar, Dany 0000-0002-4485-197X State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China & Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University, P. O. Box: 26110217, Fanar, Matn, Lebanon danyazar@ul.edu.lb Author Maksoud, Sibelle 0000-0003-4004-6735 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China & Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University, P. O. Box: 26110217, Fanar, Matn, Lebanon sibelle.maksoud@ul.edu.lb Author Abi-Saad, Pierre Memory of Time, Byblos old sook, Byblos, Lebanon Author Nel, Andre Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 Rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F- 75005, Paris, France text Zootaxa 2024 2024-08-22 5497 1 142 150 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.9 journal article 302276 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.9 ebf743a6-9351-4b97-a248-5cfec9c8518f 1175-5326 13618068 7B226163-8E94-413A-9549-E0B74502878C Family Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B31E7911-6D80-40B1-AD1E-D3396F82982D Type genus. Libanoaeshna gen. nov . , by present designation. Type species. Libanoaeshna mikhaeli sp. nov. Etymology. Named after Libanos = Lebanon in Greek ‘Λίβανος’ and the suffix ‘aeshna. Gender feminine. Diagnosis. Forewing characters only. Putative autapomorphic characters of the new fossil are as follows: forewing discoidal triangle very long and narrow, with vein MAb having a very strong angle and a strong curvature; a very strong trigonal planate (convergences with the Liupanshaniidae Bechly et al ., 2001 ); area between MP and posterior margin of wing broad; CuA short, strongly curved and without distinct posterior branches; an intercalary longitudinal vein between AA and AP; antenodal crossveins very numerous between Ax1 and Ax2 and distad Ax2; cells and intercalary crossveins in area below IR2 very numerous; area between RP1 and RP2 very narrow up to pterostigma; pterostigma in a basal position.