Louispitonia enigmatica Piton 1940

Insecta - Mantodea - Chaeteessidae

Alternative combination: Archaeophlebia enigmatica

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Louispitonia according to T. Schubnel and A. Nel 2019

See also Nel and Roy 1996 and Piton 1940

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN-LP-R 06999, a wing (fragment of a wing). Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.