Insecta - Megasecoptera - Sphecopteridae

Alternative combinations: Cycloscelis chatini, Sphecoptera chatini

Synonyms: Sphecoptera brongniartiana Handlirsch 1919, Sphecoptera fenestrata Handlirsch 1919

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1894. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Thèses Présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris 821:1-494

Belongs to Cyclocelis according to F. M. Carpenter 1992

See also Brongniart 1894, Carpenter 1951, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922 and Lameere 1917

Sister taxa: Cyclocelis devexa, Cyclocelis obscura, Cycloscelis elegantissima

Type specimens:

• Cyclocelis chatini: MNHN.F.R51310, a wing. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
• Sphecoptera brongniartiana: MNHN.F.R51307, a wing. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
• Sphecoptera fenestrata: MNHN.F.R51311, a wing. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)

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