Paradysagrion sosbyae Archibald and Cannings 2024 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Dysagrionidae

Full reference: S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings. 2024. Three new Odonata species (cf. Cephalozygoptera and cf. Dysagrionidae) from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, United States of America. The Canadian Entomologist 156(e35):1-9

Belongs to Paradysagrion according to S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SR 23-005-003, a wing. 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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