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, Sieblosiidae, Whetwhetaksidae, Dysagrionidae
Subtaxa: Auliella Euparasteleopteron Parasteleopteron Steleopteron
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