Sphecoptera elegantissima Meunier 1908 (winged insect)

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Sphecopteridae

Alternative combination: Cyclocelis elegantissima

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1908. Quatrième note sur de nouveaux insectes du Stéphanien de Commentry. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 14:244-249

Belongs to Sphecoptera according to F. M. Carpenter 1951

Sister taxa: Sphecoptera brongniarti, Sphecoptera gracilis, Sphecoptera minor, Sphecoptera pulchra

Type specimen: Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Sphecoptera elegantissima in the database

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