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Issue: Vol. 5375 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5375.1.6
Page range: 103-110
Abstract views: 207
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Revision of <em>Sinomesuropetala daohugensis</em> Boudet, Nel & Huang, 2023 (Odonata: Aeshnoptera: Mesuropetalidae)

School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB); Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; EPHE; Sorbonne Université; 57 rue Cuvier; CP 50; F-75005; Paris; France
School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China
Odonata Mesozoic Aeshnoptera Mesuropetala Middle/Late Jurassic

Abstract

The mesuropetalid dragonfly Sinomesuropetala daohugensis Boudet, Nel & Huang, 2023, is here revised based on a new well-preserved dragonfly from the Haifanggou Formation of Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. The new specimen allows us to complete the forewing characters of this species, showing the close relationship of Sinomesuropetala Boudet, Nel & Huang, 2023 with Mesuropetala Handlirsch, 1906. The mesuropetalid dragonflies are currently recorded from the Late Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits of east Asia, East Central South Europe, and southern America, indicating the wide distribution and the possible long-distance migration ability of some basal aeshnopteran dragonflies during these epochs.

 

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