Whetwhetaksa Archibald & Cannings, 2021

Archibald, Bruce, Cannings, Robert A., Erickson, Robert J., Bybee, Seth M. & Mathewes, Rolf W., 2021, The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America, Zootaxa 4934 (1), pp. 1-133 : 110-111

Whetwhetaksa Archibald & Cannings , new genus

Figs. 66–70 .

Diagnosis. As for family.

Type species. Whetwhetaksa millerae .

Description. With the character states of its only species, below.

Etymology. The genus name is formed from the word in the language of the Colville Indian tribe x̌ʷətx̌ʷətaqs, meaning odonate, pronounced “ whetwhetaks ”. The Republic site where the only known fossils of this family have been found is on the traditional land of the Colville Indian Tribe, immediately north of the current Colville Reserve. Gender, feminine.

Range and age. Republic localities B4131 and A0307B of the Tom Thumb Tuff Member of the Klondike Mountain Formation; latest Ypresian.

Figures

FIGURE 66. Whetwhetaksa millerae holotype, SR 06-01-38. A, photograph; B, drawing. Both to scale, 5 mm.

FIGURE 67. Whetwhetaksa millerae paratype 1, SR 10-36-10. A, photograph; B, drawing. Both to scale.

FIGURE 68. Whetwhetaksa millerae paratype 2, SRUI 99-98-34. A, photograph; B, drawing. Both to scale; aa, accessory antenodal crossvein.

FIGURE 69. Whetwhetaksa millerae additional material. SR 93-11-01: A, photograph; B, drawing; SR 06-01-36: C, photograph; D, drawing.All to scale, 5 mm.

FIGURE 70. Whetwhetaksa millerae, additional material. SR 10-14-19: A, photograph; B, drawing; SR 05-11-01: C, photograph; D, drawing.All to scale, 5 mm.