Agrion telluris Scudder 1890 (broad-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Calopterygidae

Alternative combination: Coenagrion telluris

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Agrion according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1908

See also Kirby 1890 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Agrion (Agrion), Calopteryx andancensis, Calopteryx atrata

Type specimen: MCZ 396, a nymph (nymph). Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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