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: Odonata according to A. Nel et al. 1993
See also Carpenter 1992, Cowley 1942, Handlirsch 1906, Martynov 1937, Tierney et al. 2020 and Tillyard 1922
Sister taxa: Epiproctophora, Hageniella, Hageniella problematica, Haidilaozhenidae, Idionychidae, Kobdoneura, Liassophlebia clavigaster, Liassophlebia hopei, Libellula decapitata, Libellulina, Mesomantidiidae, Mesonetopsis, Orthaeschnites, Oryctothemis, Palaeophlebia, Peraphlebia, Proaeschna, Pseudoeuphaea, Pseudoeuphaea areolata, Pseudoeuphaea falsificata, Pseudoeuphaea filosa, Pseudoeuphaea obscura, Sogdothemis, Syrrhoe, Triassophlebia, Zygoptera
Subtaxa: Anomothemis Epiophlebioidea Liadothemis Magnasupplephlebia Oreopteroidea Parelthothemis Petrothemis Pycnothemis Rhabdothemis Tarsophlebioidea Temnostigma
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore