Insecta - Odonata - Calopterygidae
Alternative combination: Calopteryx sannoisiensis
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1914. Nouvelles recherches sur quelques Insectes du Sannoisien D' Aix-en-Provence. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Quatrième Série 14:187-198
Belongs to Sapho according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1993
See also Meunier 1914 and Theobald 1937
Sister taxa: Sapho armissani, Sapho legrandi
Type specimen: Mus. Marseille 5897, an exoskeleton (thorax with 1 fore & hindwing). Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Museum Marseille Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Aix-en-Provence (Museum Marseille Coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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