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- Title
A new genus of isophlebioid damsel-dragonflies with "calopterygid"-like wing shape from the Middle Jurassic of China (Odonata: Isophlebioidea: Campterophlebiidae).
- Authors
NEL, ANDRÉ; DI-YING HUANG; QI-BIN LIN
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
CHINA; DAMSELFLIES; CALOPTERYGIDAE; ODONATA; INSECT anatomy; JURASSIC paleoecology
- Publication
European Journal of Entomology, 2008, Vol 105, Issue 4, p783
- ISSN
1210-5759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14411/eje.2008.103