†family Steleopteridae Handlirsch 1906 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Steleopteridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640

Parent taxon: Zygoptera according to G. Fleck et al. 2001

See also Carpenter 1992 and Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Agrion exhaustum, Agrion hecticum, Agrion mysis, Agrion thais, Andrephlebia, Burmadysagrionidae, Caloptera, Dinosamarura, Eopodagrion, Euzygoptera, Furagrion, Gasophlebia, Gomphus resinatus, Hemiphlebioidea, Italolestes, Megalestes anglicus, Mesomegaloprepidae, Platystictoidea, Podagrion abortivum, Pulchrairina, Samarura, Santanagrion, Steropoides, Valerea, Whetwhetaksidae, Sieblosiidae, Dysagrionidae

Subtaxa: Auliella Euparasteleopteron Parasteleopteron Steleopteron

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Type: Steleopteron

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Germany (5), Kazakhstan (2)

Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences

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