Oligoargiolestes oligocenum 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

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

See also Kennedy 1925, Nel and Jarzembowski 1999 and Nel and Paicheler 1994

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH Brodie coll. 8548, a wing (apical portion). Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

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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