Oligaeschna ashutasica Martynov 1929 (darner dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Alternative combinations: Basiaeschna ashutasica, Oplonaeschna ashutasica

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 Oligaeschna according to A. Nel et al. 1994

See also Martynov 1929 and Wighton and Wilson 1986

Sister taxa: Oligaeschna bulgariensis, Oligaeschna jungi, Oligaeschna kvaceki, Oligaeschna lapidaria, Oligaeschna palaeocoerulea, Oligaeschna saurai, Oligaeschna separata, Oligaeschna sinica, Oligaeschna wedmanni

Type specimen: PIN 2113/12, a hindwing. Its type locality is Mount Ashutas, river Irtysh (PIN collection 2113), which is in a Chattian terrestrial claystone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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