Rudiaeschna limnobia Ren and Guo 1996 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Rudiaeschnidae

Full reference: D. Ren and Z. Guo. 1996. Three new genera and three new species of dragonflies from the late Jurassic of Northeast China. Entomologica Sinica 3(2):95-105

Belongs to Rudiaeschna according to Y. J. Li et al. 2011

See also Bechly et al. 2001 and Ren and Guo 1996

Sister taxon: Rudiaeschna jarzembowskii

Type specimen: LB 94010, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Near Chaomidian Village (GMC Beijing coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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