Dysagrion Scudder 1878 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Dysagrionidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. An Account of Some Insects of Unusual Interest from the Tertiary Rocks of Colorado and Wyoming. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(2):519-543

Parent taxon: Dysagrioninae according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2021

See also Carpenter 1992, Nel and Paicheler 1994 and Zheng et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Allenbya, Dysagrionini, Dysagrionites, Electrophenacolestes, Okanagrion, Okanopteryx, Phenacolestes, Primorilestes, Stenodiafanus

Subtaxa: Dysagrion fredericii Dysagrion integrum Dysagrion lakesii Dysagrion packardii Dysagrion pruettae

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (4: Washington, Wyoming collections)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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