Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae
Parent taxon: Libelluloidea according to A. Goodman et al. 2026
See also Bechly 2007, Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1921, Lewis 1969, Nel and Paicheler 1993 and Zessin et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Condalia, Cordulephyidae, Corduliidae, Gomphomacromiidae, Idionychidae, Libellula cassandra, Libellula ceres, Macromiidae, Neophyidae, Synthemistidae
Subtaxa: Caussanelia Jeanlegrandia Leucorrhininae Libellula eusebioi Libellula minuscula Libellulinae Miorhodopygia Molertrum Onychothemis Oryctodiplax Palaeolibellula Pantaliinae Pantalinae Prorhyothemis Sloveniatrum Sympetrinae Tetrathemistinae Trithemistinae
Type: Libellula
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene of India (1), United States (1: California)
• Turolian of France (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Croatia (2), Czechia (4), France (1), Germany (5), Italy (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (3), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California)
• Oligocene of France (12), Germany (4)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 57 collections including 90 occurrences