Sphecoptera pulchra Brongniart 1894 (winged insect)

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Sphecopteridae

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1894. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Thèses Présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris 821:1-494

Belongs to Sphecoptera according to A. Handlirsch 1906

See also Brongniart 1894

Sister taxa: Sphecoptera brongniarti, Sphecoptera elegantissima, Sphecoptera gracilis, Sphecoptera minor

Type specimen: MNHN.F.R51079, a wing. 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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