Chalcolestes Kennedy 1920 (spread-winged damselfly)
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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
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Northern Kanggale Hill, Nima Basin (Eocene of China)
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