Stenolestes falloti Theobald 1937 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Sieblosiidae

Alternative combination: Indophaea falloti

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 Stenolestes according to A. Nel and D. R. Zheng 2021

See also Archibald et al. 2021, Nel 1986, Nel and Paicheler 1994 and Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Stenolestes adygeianensis, Stenolestes andancensis, Stenolestes belligaudi, Stenolestes camoinsi, Stenolestes cerestensis, Stenolestes coulleti, Stenolestes dauphinensis, Stenolestes fasciata, Stenolestes fischeri, Stenolestes hispanicus, Stenolestes iris, Stenolestes rhodopensis, Stenolestes ronzonense

Type specimen: MNHN-LP-B.24507, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Céreste (Goret Collection), which is in a MP 23 lacustrine carbonate in the Campagne-Calavon Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Céreste (Goret Collection)

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