Kishenehna Archibald and Cannings 2022 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae

Full reference: S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings. 2022. Taxonomic names, in Kishenehna prima, a new genus and species of darner dragonfly (Odonata, Aeshnidae, Gomphaeschninae) from the early middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation of Montana, USA. Zootaxa 5099:496-600

Parent taxon: Gomphaeschninae according to S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings 2022

Sister taxa: Alloaeschna, Allopetalia, Gomphaeschna, Oligoaeschna, Oplonaeschna

Subtaxa: Kishenehna prima

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Type: Kishenehna prima

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Park site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn) (Eocene of Montana)

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