Peraphlebia Jell and Duncan 1986 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986. Invertebrates, mainly insects, from the freshwater, Lower Cretaceous, Koonwarra Fossil Bed (Korumburra Group), South Gippsland, Victoria. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 3:111-205

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

See also Jell and Duncan 1986 and Nel et al. 1993

Sister taxa: Anisozygoptera, Epiproctophora, Hageniella, Hageniella problematica, Haidilaozhenidae, Idionychidae, Kobdoneura, Liassophlebia clavigaster, Liassophlebia hopei, Libellula decapitata, Libellulina, Mesomantidiidae, Mesonetopsis, Orthaeschnites, Oryctothemis, Palaeophlebia, Proaeschna, Pseudoeuphaea, Pseudoeuphaea areolata, Pseudoeuphaea falsificata, Pseudoeuphaea filosa, Pseudoeuphaea obscura, Sogdothemis, Syrrhoe, Triassophlebia, Zygoptera

Subtaxa: Peraphlebia tetrastichia

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Type: Peraphlebia tetrastichia

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at NMVPL425, Koonwarra (Cretaceous of Australia)

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