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Issue: Vol. 5538 No. 1: 13 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.1.7
Page range: 74-78
Abstract views: 180
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A new burmaeshnid dragonfly (Odonata, Anisoptera, Aeshnoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, north Myanmar

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China.
Odonata Burmaeshnidae Aeshnoptera Anisoptera OdonataCretaceous Kachin amber

Abstract

The fifth burmaeshnid dragonfly, Neoaeschna kachinensis gen. et sp. nov., is described based on the basal parts of a pair of fore- and hindwings from Kachin amber, indicating that Burmaeshnidae Huang, Cai, Nel & Bechly, 2017 is the most diverse family of true dragonflies in Kachin amber. The new dragonfly differs from the other genera in having one row of cells present in the postdiscoidal area basal of the midfork, the trigonal planate being obsolete, and one or two crossveins present basal of the CuP-crossing in the submedian space.

 

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