Allenbya holmesae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cephalozygoptera
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Superordo: Odonatoptera Ordo: Odonata Subordo: †Cephalozygoptera

Superfamilia: †"Sieblosioid Group"
Familia: Incertae sedis
Genus: †Allenbya
Species: †Allenbya holmesae

Holotype: GSC 142948
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  - Collector: 19 October 2021 by Beverley Burlingame

Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanogan Highlands; Vermilion Bluffs Member, Allenby Formation, Princeton Group; 4 km southwest of Princeton, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

"The specific epithet is a patronym formed from the surname Holmes, the maiden name of the late Ms. Dorothy Bradbeer of Agriculture Canada, mother of Beverley Burlingame, the collector and donor of the holotype, who instilled in her as a youth a love of insects and fossils."

Eocene

Ypresian
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
- Vermilion Bluffs Member, Allenby Formation, Princeton Group; 4 km southwest of Princeton, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada

Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page.
Archibald S.B.; Cannings, R.A. 2022. The first Odonata from the early Eocene Allenby Formation of the Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada (Anisoptera, Aeshnidae and cf. Cephalozygoptera, Dysagrionidae). The Canadian Entomologist 154(1): e29. doi:10.4039/tce.2022.16.
Ware J.; Simonsen T.J.; Rasmussen J.A.; Archibald S.B. 2025. Systematics of the extinct suborder Cephalozygoptera (Odonata): a wing-based analysis comparing its genera with those of extant Zygoptera. American Museum Novitates 4043: 1–19.