International Geological Journal - Official Journal of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association

Oligaeschna kvaceki sp. nov., a new fossil dragonfly (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from the middle Oligocene sediments of northern Moravia (Western Carpathians)

Published: Apr 2007

Pages: 181 - 184

Authors: JAKUB PROKOP, TOMAS PRIKRYL, ONDREJ DOSTAL, ANDRE NEL

Abstract: A new species of fossil dragonfly Oligaeschna Piton et Theobald, 1939 (O. kvaceki sp. nov.) is described from Middle Oligocene strata of northern Moravia and compared with all closely related species. The current record documents a rather broad distribution and probably also high abundance of Oligaeschna in Eurasia during the Oligocene and Miocene.

Keywords: Middle Oligocene, Western Carpathians, taxonomy, Insecta, Aeshnidae, Aeshninae

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