Lutetialestes, Greenwalt, Dale E. & Bechly, Günter, 2014

Greenwalt, Dale E. & Bechly, Günter, 2014, A re-description of the fossil damselfly Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Eolestidae n. fam.) with description of new taxa from the Eocene of North America, Zootaxa 3887 (2), pp. 138-156 : 148

Lutetialestes n. gen.

( Figures 8 , 9 A, 10)

Type species. Lutetialestes uniformis n. sp.

Etymology. Genus name from the name of the geological stage (Lutetian) of the fossiliferous exposures of the Coal Creek Member of the Kishenehn Formation.

Diagnosis. As for type species, since monotypic.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Photograph of the partial wing of Lutetialestes uniformis (holotype USNM 559048). Scale bar = 5 mm.

FIGURE 9. Line drawings of the cubital and cubito-anal fields of: (A) Lutetialestes uniformis (holotype USNM 559048); (B) Lestes ceresti (MNHN-LP-R. 07448), redrawn from Nel & Paicheler (1994). Scale bars = 3 mm.