Cyclocelis obscura Brongniart 1894 (winged insect)

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Sphecopteridae

Alternative combination: Cycloscelis obscura

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 1951

See also Brongniart 1894 and Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Cyclocelis chatini, Cyclocelis devexa, Cycloscelis elegantissima

Type specimen: MNHN.F.R51062, a forewing. 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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