ABSTRACT
Viridiflumineagrion aasei gen. et sp. nov., attributed to the group ‘Megapodagrionidae’ sensu lato, is described and illustrated on the basis of a rather well-preserved fossil of a small damselfly from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation. It is compared to the other fossil taxa currently attributed to this group. The late Eocene genus Miopodagrion (Florissant, USA) and the early Eocene ‘Megapodagrionidae genus and species A’ described by Petrulevičius et al. (fig. 4) (Denmark), are the fossils that most closely resemble the new taxon. The new discovery confirms that the damselflies with venations of ‘megapodagrionid’ type were very diverse during the Palaeogene.
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Acknowledgments
I sincerely thank two anonymous referees for their very useful remarks on the first version of the paper.
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