†Hemeroscopus Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)
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Insecta - Odonata - Hemeroscopidae
Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1977. New dragonflies from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Transbaikalia and Mongolia. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:81-96
Parent taxon: Hemeroscopidae according to K. S. Nam and J. H. Kim 2016
See also Bechly et al. 1998, Carpenter 1992, Pritykina 1977, Ren 1995, Ueda et al. 2005 and Zheng et al. 2015
Sister taxon: Abrohemeroscopus
Subtaxa: Hemeroscopus baissicus
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (2)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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