Epiaeschna magnifica Martynov 1929

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Alternative combination: Epacantha magnifica

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1929. Ob iskopayemykh nasekomykh tretichnykh otlozheniy Ashutasa, Zaisanskogo uyezda. Trudy Geologicheskogo Muzeya, Akademii Nauk SSSR 5:173-216

Belongs to Epiaeschna according to A. Nel and J. F. Petrulevičius 2010

See also Martynov 1929 and Nel et al. 1994

Sister taxa: Epiaeschna gossi, Epiaeschna lucida, Epiaeschna matutina, Epiaeschna pseudoheros, Epiaeschna stauropolitana, Epiaeschna wisseri

Type specimen: PIN 2113/8-9, a hindwing (nearly complete male hindwing). Its type locality is Mount Ashutas, river Irtysh (PIN collection 2113), which is in a Chattian terrestrial claystone in Kazakhstan.

Distribution: found only at Mount Ashutas, river Irtysh (PIN collection 2113)

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