title: A re-description of the fossil damselfly Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Eolestidae n. fam.) with description of new taxa from the Eocene of North America.
abstract: The enigmatic species Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940, from the Early Eocene of North America, previously attributed to the lestoid family Synlestidae, is re-examined in light of the discovery of new material from the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana. E. syntheticus and a new species, Eolestes ramosus sp. n., are attributed to a new family Eolestidae fam. n.. In addition, a new genus and species very closely related to Lestidae but assigned to family unknown, Lutetialestes uniformis sp. n., is described from the Kishenehn Formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, ashington, D.C. 20013, USA.; Email: greenwaltd@si.edu.
authors.forename: Dale E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Greenwalt
authors.affiliation: Department of Paleontology, State Museum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.; Email: guenter.bechly@smns-bw.de.
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bechly
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005580:Fossils; D009656:North America; D063191:Odonata / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D013045:Species Specificity