Paraoligolestes Nel and Escuillé 1993 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Sieblosiidae

Full reference: A. Nel and F. Escuillé. 1993. Découverte d'un nouveau genre de Sieblosiidae dans le Miocène supérieur de l'Ardèche (France) (Odonata, Zygoptera, Lestoidea, Sieblosiidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N.S.) 10:233-242

Parent taxon: Sieblosiidae according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2021

See also Nel and Escuillé 1993, Nel and Paicheler 1994 and Nel et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Germanostenolestes, Miostenolestes, Oligolestes, Parastenolestes, Sieblosia, Stenolestes

Subtaxa: Paraoligolestes miocenicus Paraoligolestes stavropolensis

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of France (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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