Lestes regina Théobald, 1937

Jattiot, Romain, Latutrie, Benjamin & Nel, André, 2020, The first damselfly (Odonata, Lestidae) from the upper Eocene of Monteils (Gard, France), Zootaxa 4750 (3), pp. 432-436 : 433-434

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:86AE1385-19AD-49B9-85CF-A8A6F64E423A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3717920

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE498784-A73C-FFF0-1FA9-FE0FB10FFE14

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scientific name

Lestes regina Théobald, 1937
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Lestes regina Théobald, 1937

( Figs 1–2 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 )

Material. Specimen UBGD 32320 (imprint, a nearly complete damselfly with all legs and wings preserved, sex unknown), stored at the Université de Bourgogne, Géologie, Dijon, France; counterimprint in Coll. Benjamin Latutrie.

Description. Body black, wings hyaline with pterostigma dark brown. Head deformed as in all fossil Lestidae , with mouthparts anteriorly projected, 2.6 mm long, and 3.5 mm wide. Thorax 6.0 mm long, and 3.4 mm wide. Fore- and hindwing nearly identical, in particular discoidal cells of same shapes and widths; fore wing 19.9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, ratio L/ W 4.4, width at nodus level 3.2 mm; pterostigma 2.3 mm long, and 0.5 mm wide; distance from base to arculus 3.7 mm, from arculus to nodus 3.7 mm, from nodus to pterostigma 9.8 mm, and from subnodus to base of RP2 2.8 mm; oblique vein ‘O’ two cells distal of base of RP2; a supplementary row of 5–6 cells between MP and CuA. Abdomen 27.9 mm long, 1.3 mm wide; cerci present but poorly preserved.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Odonata

Family

Lestidae

Genus

Lestes

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