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Lestes forsterii

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Taxonomy
Lestes foersteri was named by Hess (1895). Its type specimen is Theobald Coll., a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Brunstatt, Mulhouse (Strassburg collection), which is in an Oligocene lacustrine - large marl in France.

It was corrected as Lestes forsterii by Nel and Paicheler (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1895Lestes foersteri Hess p. 14 figs. Pl 5, figs 1,2
1937Lestes foersteri Theobald p. 158
1994Lestes forsterii Nel and Paicheler

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
—Euzygoptera
—Lestomorpha
—Lestiformia
—Eulestiformia
—Lestida
—Lestodea
superfamilyLestoideaFraser 1957
familyLestidae
genusLestesLeach 1815
speciesforsterii()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Lestes forsterii Hess 1895
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Diagnosis
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