Platycnemis antiqua Pictet 1848 (white-legged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Platycnemididae

Alternative combinations: Agrion antiquum, Coenagrion antiquum

Full reference: F. Pictet. 1848. Taxonomic names, in Die fossilen Libellen Europa's. Entomologische Zeitung 9:6-13

Belongs to Platycnemis according to G. Bechly 1998

See also Hagen 1850, Kirby 1890, Nel and Papazian 1990, Pictet 1848 and Pictet and Hagen 1856

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Poland (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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