Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Alternative spelling: Aeschnidiinae
Synonym: Sonidae Pritykina 1986
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: Neoanisoptera according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Bechly 1998, Bechly 2000, Carle and Wighton 1990, Carpenter 1992, Pritykina 1986, Sturm and Mendes 1998, Tillyard 1918 and Zhang 1999
Sister taxon: Anisoptera
Subtaxa: Aegyptidium Aeschnidiella Aeschnidiopsis Aeschnidium Angloaeschnidium Bergeriaeschnidia Brunetaeschnidium Brunneaeschnidia Cooperaeschnidium Coramaeschnidium Cratoaeschnidium Dakotaeschnidium Delclosaeschidium Diastatopaeschnidium Dracontaeschnidium Gansuaeschnidia Gigantoaeschnidium Hebeiaeschnidia Iberoaeschnidium Jarzembowskiaeschnidium Kesseleraeschnidium Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium Leptaeschnidium Libellula abscissa Linaeschnidium Lithoaeschnidium Lleidoaeschnidium Malmaeschnidium Misofaeschnidium Nannoaeschnidium Neimengogomphus Neimengogomphus dongwugaiensis Pseudosamarura Pseudosamarura largina Rossaeschnidium Santanoptera Sinaeschnidia Sinostenophlebia Solnhofenia Sona Stylaeschnidium Tauropteryx Urogomphus Wightonia Yixiangomphus Yixiangomphus labius
Type: Aeschnidium
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Australia (3), Brazil (7), China (21), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (2: North Dakota, South Dakota)
• Jurassic of Germany (18), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 79 collections including 107 occurrences