Dasyleptus lucasi Brongniart 1885 (jumping bristletails)

Insecta - Archaeognatha - Dasyleptidae

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1885. Les insectes fossiles des terrains primaires. Coup d'oeil rapide sur la fauna entomologique des terrains paléozoïques. Bulletin de la Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Rouen 21(3):50-68

Belongs to Dasyleptus according to M. S. Engel 2009

See also Brongniart 1885, Brongniart 1894, Lameere 1917 and Rasnitsyn 1999

Sister taxa: Dasyleptus artinskianus, Dasyleptus brongniarti, Dasyleptus noli, Dasyleptus rowlandi, Dasyleptus sharovi, Dasyleptus sinensis, Dasyleptus triassicus

Type specimen: MNHN.F.R55214, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll)

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