Libanoaeshnidae, Azar & Maksoud & Abi-Saad & Nel, 2024

Azar, Dany, Maksoud, Sibelle, Abi-Saad, Pierre & Nel, Andre, 2024, A new, to date endemic, family of dragonfly in the mid-Cretaceous fossil fish Konservat-Lagerstätte of Haqel, Lebanon (Odonata: Anisoptera), Zootaxa 5497 (1), pp. 142-150 : 144

Family Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov.

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Type genus. Libanoaeshna gen. nov., by present designation.

Type species. Libanoaeshna mikhaeli sp. nov.

Etymology. Named after Libanos = Lebanon in Greek ‘Λίβανος’ and the suffix ‘aeshna. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis. Forewing characters only. Putative autapomorphic characters of the new fossil are as follows: forewing discoidal triangle very long and narrow, with vein MAb having a very strong angle and a strong curvature; a very strong trigonal planate (convergences with the Liupanshaniidae Bechly et al., 2001 ); area between MP and posterior margin of wing broad; CuA short, strongly curved and without distinct posterior branches; an intercalary longitudinal vein between AA and AP; antenodal crossveins very numerous between Ax1 and Ax2 and distad Ax2; cells and intercalary crossveins in area below IR2 very numerous; area between RP1 and RP2 very narrow up to pterostigma; pterostigma in a basal position.