Lestes regina Theobald 1937 (spread-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473

Belongs to Lestes according to A. Nel and G. Fleck 2014

See also Nel and Jarzembowski 1999, Nel and Paicheler 1994 and Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Lestes aquisextana, Lestes arvernus, Lestes brisaci, Lestes ceresti, Lestes conexus, Lestes datangensis, Lestes dianacompteae, Lestes forsterii, Lestes irenea, Lestes leucosia, Lestes ligea, Lestes lutzi, Lestes peisinoe, Lestes plicata, Lestes sieblosiformis, Lestes statzi, Lestes vicina, Lestes zalesskyi

Type specimen: MHNM C1, a wing. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Spain (1 collection)

• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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