First Baltic amber megapodagrionid damselfly (Odonata: Zygoptera) |
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| Authors: | Dany Azar |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Natural Sciences , Lebanese University , Fanar - Matn - P. O. box 26110217 , Lebanon azar@mnhn.fr |
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| Abstract: | Electropodagrion szwedoi n. gen., n. sp., first Baltic amber megapodagrionid damselfly, is described. The European and North American fossils document a very high diversity and a much wider distribution of this group of damselflies during the Cenozoic than today. A checklist of described fossil species of damselflies of the family Megapodagrionidae is given. |
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| Keywords: | Fossil Tertiary Eocene Baltic Amber |
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