Phylogenetic analysis of Protomyrmeleontidae (Odonatoptera: Insecta) with description of new taxa from Asia

NEL, A., PETRULEVICIUS, J. F. Y MARTÍNEZ-DELCLÒS, X.

JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Cambridge University Press

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2005 vol. 3 p. 187 - 201

1477-2019

The following protomyrmeleontid damselfly-like Odonatoptera are described from the Mesozoic of Eurasia: Ferganagrion kirghiziensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Paraobotritagrion gen. nov. for Paraobotritagrion tenuiformis (Zessin, 1991) comb. nov., Mongolagrion shartegensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Protomyrmeleon pumilio sp. nov., Protomyrmeleon kazakhstanensis sp. nov., Protomyrmeleon karatauensis sp. nov., Protomyrmeleon grandis sp. nov. The wing venations of the protomyrmeleontid genera are homologised, showing the high morphological diversity in this family. After a new phylogenetic analysis, it appears that the fossil record is too scarce and incomplete to solve the phylogeny of the Protomyrmeleontidae. In particular, the current division of Protomyrmeleontidae in Triassagrioninae and Protomyrmeleontinae is weakly supported.