A new genus and species of darner dragonfl y (Aeshnidae: Odonata) from the lower Eocene of Laguna del Hunco,Patagonia, Argentina |
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| Authors: | Julián F Petrulevičius |
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| Institution: | 1. Entomologie , CNRS UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 45, rue de Buffon , Paris , F-75005 , France;2. Departamento Paleozoologia Invertebrados , CONICET, Argentina.Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, s/n , La Plata , 1900 , Argentina levicius@mnhn.fr |
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| Abstract: | A new genus of Aeshnidae, Huncoaeshna n. gen., based on Huncoaeshna corrugata n. gen., n. sp., is erected from Laguna del Hunco (Ypresian) in Patagonia Argentina. The specimen presents a special kind of preservation with the middle part of the wing wrinkled. The presence of only two fossil specimens of Aeshnidae in South America is surely due to the lack of paleontomologists and collections of fossil insects in the subcontinent. |
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| Keywords: | Aeshnidae Ypresian Laguna del Hunco Patagonia Argentina |
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