Dakotaeschnidium, NEL, 2021

NEL, ANDRÉ, 2021, Maastrichtian representatives of the dragonfly family Aeschnidiidae question the entomofaunal turnover of the early Late Cretaceous, Palaeoentomology 4 (3), pp. 209-212 : 209-210

Genus Dakotaeschnidium gen. nov.

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Type species. Dakotaeschnidium spedeni sp. nov.

Etymology. Named after ‘Dakota’, name of a native people living in North America, and Aeschnidium . Gender masculine.

Diagnosis. Hind wing characters only. Basal and distal subdiscoidal spaces transverse and very broad, posteriorly opened, without any angle between AAspl and AA1a veins; vein AA1a poorly defined; two rows of cells in hypertriangle; two in submedian space, and two-three in basal part of area between RP and MA; no infrasubdiscoidal space basal to basal subdiscoidal space.