Stenolestes coulleti Nel and Papazian 1986 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Sieblosiidae

Full reference: A. Nel and M. Papazian. 1986. Sur une nouvelle espèce d'Odonate fossile du Stampien de Cereste (Lubéron) (Odonata, Lestidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N.S.) 3:227-233

Belongs to Stenolestes according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2021

See also Nel and Paicheler 1994 and Nel and Papazian 1986

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Céreste (Coullet coll), 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 (Coullet coll)

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