A new genus of isophlebioid damsel-dragonflies with "calopterygid"-like wing shape from the Middle Jurassic of China (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae)

Title:

A new genus of isophlebioid damsel-dragonflies with "calopterygid"-like wing shape from the Middle Jurassic of China (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae)

Creator:

nel, André, Huang, Di-Ying, and Lin, Qi-Bin

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:e9e90f4a-aaa1-46cb-aaa5-389af05eb077
uuid:e9e90f4a-aaa1-46cb-aaa5-389af05eb077

Subject:

Odonata, Isophlebioidea, Campterophlebiidae, gen. n., sp. n., Middle Jurassic, China, and wing shape

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Zygokaratawia reni, a new campterophlebiid genus and species is described from the Middle Jurassic of China. This fossil has a wing shape unique for this clade, i.e. a fore- and hind wing of the same width and very shortly petiolated, and hind wing cubito-anal area nearly as narrow as that of the forewing. This wing shape is convergently similar to that of recent Zygoptera: Calopterygidae, as well as to several other Cenozoic zygopteran clades, suggesting similar styles of flight and habits, i.e. predation on small insects and flight along trees of river banks.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2008 Volume:105 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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