The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America
Author
Archibald, Bruce
Author
Cannings, Robert A.
0000-0001-9491-8186
annings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Author
Erickson, Robert J.
0000-0003-1162-0355
1990platypus@gmail.com
Author
Bybee, Seth M.
0000-0001-6224-6303
seth.bybee@gmail.com
Author
Mathewes, Rolf W.
0000-0001-7637-199X
r_mathewes@sfu.ca
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
4934
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1
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journal article
7439
10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1
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Okanagrion lochmum
Archibald & Cannings
,
new species
Fig. 23
.
Diagnosis.
Wings separated from those of
O. worleyae
by shape: posterior margin more deeply curved (
O
.
angustum
not known by preservation); from
O. beardi
,
O
.
dorrellae
by MP, CuA sub-parallel at terminus on posterior margin [
O. beardi
: distinctly wider,
O
.
dorrellae
: widening, but less distinctly as CuA zigzagged distally (
O
.
angustum
, not known); from
O. hobani
by RP2, IR2, RP3-4, MA, MP not as strongly curved at margin (veins anterior to these not preserved at margin); from
O. hobani
by main veins less deeply curved near margin; from
O. threadgillae
by IR2–RP3-4 space at wing margin about half width as in
O. threadgillae
; from
O
.
angustum
,
O. dorrellae
by width measured two cells proximal to origin of RP2 perpendicular to apical margin [
O
.
angustum
,
O. dorrellae
: 75% width of
O
.
lochmum
]; from
O
.
dorrellae
by MP linear to margin [
O
.
dorrellae
: zigzagged near margin]; from
O
.
angustum
,
O. beardi
by IR2 origin between RP1-2, RP3-4 [
O
.
angustum
,
O. beardi
: origin on RP1-2]; from
O. threadgillae
,
O. beardi
,
O. dorrellae
,
O. hobani
,
O. liquetoalatum
,
O. worleyae
by cells denser in apical wing: RA–RP1 space becomes two cells wide just over seven cells proximal to pterostigma [
O. threadgillae
,
O. beardi
,
O. dorrellae
: about three cells proximal to it;
O. hobani
: about two to four;
O. liquetoalatum
: one;
O. worleyae
four]; RA–RP1 space three cells wide from about one cell proximal to pterostigma [
O. threadgillae
,
O. hobani
,
O. liquetoalatum
,
O. worleyae
: at or one cell from apical corner of pterostigma;
O. beardi
: two–three cells apical to pterostigma;
O
.
angustum
,
O. dorrellae
: not known]; RA–RP1 space becomes four/five cells wide at distal corner of pterostigma [
O. hobani
: from about half distance from pterostigma to margin;
O. beardi
: becomes maximum four wide about four–five cells distal to pterostigma;
O. liquetoalatum
: five cells wide over half distance from pterostigma to margin;
O. worleyae
: maximum four wide from about four or more cells distal to pterostigma;
O
.
angustum
,
O. dorrellae
: not known by preservation].
Further separated by colouration (sex unknown): similar to that of
O. beardi
, and differing from other species of the genus as in their diagnoses.
Type material.
Holotype
: RBCM 11799.001 (
Fig. 23
), collected at the
McAbee Hoodoo Face
beds by
John Leahy
, date unknown: a mostly complete wing missing the apical-most portion and small damage proximally; housed in the
Royal
British Columbia
Museum
collections.
Description.
Holotype
, RBCM 11799.001, hind wing. Shape generalised for
Okanagrion
hind wing,
i.e
., anterior margin nodus to pterostigma rather straight, posterior margin deeply curved; length arculus to base of pterostigma:
20.4 mm
; nodus to base of pterostigma:
15.4 mm
; nodus estimated at about 28% wing length; maximum width
8.5 mm
; colouration as in diagnosis; pterostigma anterior, posterior margins oblique (anterior margin more), three times longer than wide, subtends 5.5 cells; no oblique brace vein; crossveins in postnodal, postsubnodal spaces not aligned; maximum four cells wide distal to pterostigma in costal space (but region damaged); RA–RP1 space maximum five cells wide in preserved portion; IR1 origin six cells distal to origin of RP2; RP2 origin five cells distal to origin of IR2; IR2 origin close to subnodus, immediately proximal to it; RP3-4 origin in distal part of middle third between arculus, nodus; arculus at Ax2; Ax0 not detected; no crossvein O; MA linear (very slight, short zigzag); MP linear, hardly curved from quadrangle to terminus about two-thirds distance from nodus to pterostigma; MP, CuA sub-parallel at terminus on posterior margin; CuA linear; CuA–A space with seven cells at widest (between levels of origins of IR1, RP2).
Etymology
. The specific epithet
lochmum
is the Latinized neuter adjective form of the Greek Λóχμη,
lóchmi
, meaning
thicket
, referring to the denseness of the crossvenation.
Range and age
. McAbee, BC,
Canada
; mid-Ypresian.