Ypshna brownleei Archibald and Cannings 2019 (darner dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Full reference: S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings. 2019. Fossil dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera)from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 151:783-816

Belongs to Ypshna according to S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings 2019

Sister taxon: Ypshna latipennata

Type specimen: SR 01-06-13, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Republic, locality B4131, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Klondike Mountain Formation of Washington.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Republic, locality B4131

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