A possible true Mesozoic Gomphidae s. str. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Odonata: Anisoptera)

Gunterbechlya pumilio gen. et sp. nov., first putative Mesozoic Gomphidae sensu stricto, is described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. It is remarkable in its reduced venation with quadrangular discoidal triangles, only found in the extant gomphid genera Lestinogomphus and Archaeogomphus, the ‘libelluloid’ Cordulephyidae and the Libellulidae: ‘Tetrathemistinae’. All these taxa are small dragonflies with reduced venation. Possibly the...