Amnifleckia, Zhang, Bing-Lan, Fleck, Gunther, Huang, Di-Ying, Nel, André, Ren, Dong, Cheng, Xiao-Dong & Lin, Qi-Bin, 2006

Zhang, Bing-Lan, Fleck, Gunther, Huang, Di-Ying, Nel, André, Ren, Dong, Cheng, Xiao-Dong & Lin, Qi-Bin, 2006, New isophlebioid dragonflies (Odonata: Isophlebioptera: Campterophlebiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China, Zootaxa 1339, pp. 51-68 : 53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.174364

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6261209

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387EE-5A04-FFF0-D05D-FC86F489FA5C

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Plazi

scientific name

Amnifleckia
status

gen. nov.

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.

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