†family Hemeroscopidae Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Hemeroscopidae

Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1977. New dragonflies from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Transbaikalia and Mongolia. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:81-96

Parent taxon: Eubrachystigmata according to G. Bechly 2007

See also Bechly et al. 1998, Carpenter 1992 and Ren et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Daohugoulibellulidae, Juralibellulidae, Neobrachystigmata

Subtaxa: Abrohemeroscopus Hemeroscopus

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Type: Hemeroscopus

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (2)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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