Lutetialestes Greenwalt and Bechly 2014 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: D. E. Greenwalt and G. Bechly. 2014. A re-description of the fossil damselfly Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Eolestidae n. fam.) with description of new taxa from the Eocene of North America. Zootaxa 3887:138-156

Parent taxon: Lestoidea according to D. E. Greenwalt and G. Bechly 2014

Sister taxa: Cerdanyagrion, Cretalestes, Daemhippus, Eolestidae, Lestidae, Perilestidae, Platycnemis cincuneguii, Pseudolestidae, Synlestidae

Subtaxa: Lutetialestes uniformis

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Type: Lutetialestes uniformis

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Disbrow Creek, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn) (Eocene of Montana)

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