New isophlebioid dragonflies (Odonata: Isophlebioptera: Campterophlebiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
Author
Zhang, Bing-Lan
Author
Fleck, Gunther
Author
Huang, Di-Ying
Author
Nel, André
Author
Ren, Dong
Author
Cheng, Xiao-Dong
Author
Lin, Qi-Bin
text
Zootaxa
2006
1339
51
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174364
d6894fb7-fc5a-4ef9-8c67-75e4dfd04721
1175-5326
174364
Genus
Amnifleckia
n. gen.
Zhang, Ren, and Cheng
Type species.
Amnifleckia guttata
n. sp.
Zhang, Ren, and Cheng, Other species.
Amnifleckia splendida
n. sp.
Etymology.
After the Latin word “Amni” (meaning “river”) for the paleoenvironment with mountain streams and Günther Freck, which described the first Isophlebioid dragonfly from
China
.
Diagnosis.
Wings rather long and narrow; fore wing distinctly longer than hind wing (by about 9 percent); no cross-veins between Ax1 and Ax2; discoidal and subdiscoidal areas free in both pairs of wings; fore wing discoidal space basally opened, unlike the closed discoidal space in hind wing; subdiscoidal space free, large, transverse and posteriorly limited by AA; gaff long; CuA very short; pterostigmata basally recessed, with at least two cross-veins below; fore wing pterostigma distinctly shorter than that of hind wing; IR2 distinctly originating from RP.