Chalcolestes Kennedy 1920 (spread-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Full reference: C. H. Kennedy. 1920. Forty-two hitherto unrecognized genera and subgenera of Zygoptera. The Ohio Journal of Science 21:83-88

Parent taxon: Lestidae according to T. J. Simonsen et al. 2022

See also Xia et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Lestes, Lestinae, Sympecma, Sympecmatinae

Subtaxa: Chalcolestes tibetensis

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Northern Kanggale Hill, Nima Basin (Eocene of China)

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