Eolestidae, Greenwalt & Bechly, 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 : 140

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3887.2.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D9275063-BD74-498E-B504-1421B50114A5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14833874
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/40446A46-FFBA-6701-FF4C-02FE8DE7FE73
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eolestidae
status	fam. nov.

Treatment

Family Eolestidae n. fam.

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Type genus. Eolestes Cockerell, 1940 .

Diagnosis. 1) Pterostigma length ≥ 3 x width; 2) Oblique “ O ” crossvein present; 3) Postnodal crossveins mostly aligned; 4) MA slightly zigzagged distal of the nodus; 5) Ax2 at or just distal of the arculus; 6) Discoidal cell closed and its posterior internal angle acute; 7) IR2 and RP 3/4 origin closer to the arculus than the nodus; 8) IR1- RP 2, RP 2-IR2 and RP 3/4-MA fields with ≥ two supplementary longitudinal sectors; 9) MA-CuA (cubital) field with ≥ two supplementary longitudinal sectors; 10) IR2- RP 3/4 field not expanded distally.