Aeschnidiopsis flindersiensis Woodward 1884 (small darner)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae

Alternative combinations: Aeschna flindersiensis, Aeschnidium flindersiense

Full reference: H. Woodward. 1884. On the wing of a neuropterous insect from the Cretaceous limestone of Flinders River, north Queensland, Australia. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 1:337-339

Belongs to Aeschnidiopsis according to A. Nel and X. Martínez-Delclòs 1993

See also Handlirsch 1907, Kirby 1890, Riek 1954, Tillyard 1918 and Woodward 1884

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Flinders River, which is in an Aptian carbonate lime mudstone in the Walumbilla Formation of Australia

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Flinders River

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