Triassophlebia Tillyard 1922 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1922. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 9 Orthoptera, and additions to the Protorthoptera, Odonata, Hemiptera and Planipennia. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47:447-470

Parent taxon: Odonata according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1994

See also Carpenter 1992, Nel et al. 1993, Tillyard 1922 and Tillyard 1923

Sister taxa: Anisozygoptera, Epiproctophora, Hageniella, Hageniella problematica, 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, Zygoptera

Subtaxa: Triassophlebia stigmatica

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1915-1916 collection) (Triassic of Australia)

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