Oligoargiolestes Kennedy 1925 (flatwing)

Insecta - Odonata - Megapodagrionidae

Full reference: C. H. Kennedy. 1925. New genera of Megapodagrioninae, with notes on the subfamily. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 67:291-311

Parent taxon: Megapodagrionidae according to A. Nel and G. Fleck 2014

See also Carpenter 1992 and Nel and Paicheler 1994

Sister taxa: Cretapodagrion, Eckfeldia, Electropodagrion, Hanklitia, Megapodagrion, Phyonganpodagrion, Viridiflumineagrion, Vulcagrion

Subtaxa: Oligoargiolestes oligocenum

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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