†Sympecma incerta Piton 1935 (spread-winged damselfly)
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Alternative combination: Lestes incertus
Full reference: L. Piton. 1935. Pseudo-névroptères et Névroptères des Cinérites tertiaires d'Auvergne. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 78:171-176
Belongs to Sympecma according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1994
See also Piton 1935, Piton 1939 and Piton and Théobald 1935
Sister taxon: Sympecma ribesalbesensis
Type specimen: MNHN-LP-B.47285, a wing. Its type locality is Lac Chambon (Piton coll), which is in a Gelasian crater lake diatomite/volcaniclastic in France.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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