Lestes irenea Nel 1987 (spread-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Full reference: A. Nel. 1987. Sur une nouvelle espèce fossile du genre Lestes Leach, 1815, du Calcaire Stampien de Cereste (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) (Odonata Lestidae). L'Entomologiste 43(2):113-116

Belongs to Lestes according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1994

See also Nel 1987

Sister taxa: Lestes aquisextana, Lestes arvernus, Lestes brisaci, Lestes ceresti, Lestes conexus, Lestes datangensis, Lestes dianacompteae, Lestes forsterii, Lestes leucosia, Lestes ligea, Lestes lutzi, Lestes peisinoe, Lestes plicata, Lestes regina, Lestes sieblosiformis, Lestes statzi, Lestes vicina, Lestes zalesskyi

Type specimen: Coullet Coll, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Céreste (Coullet coll), which is in a MP 23 lacustrine carbonate in the Campagne-Calavon Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Céreste (Coullet coll)

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