†family Bechlyidae Jarzembowski and Nel 2002 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Bechlyidae

Full reference: E. A. Jarzembowski and A. Nel. 2002. The earliest damselfly like insect and the origin of modern dragonflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Protozygoptera). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 113:165-169

Parent taxon: Archizygoptera according to A. Nel et al. 2012

See also Jarzembowski and Nel 2002

Sister taxa: Batkeniidae, Engellestidae, Kaltanoneuridae, Kennedyidae, Kennedyoidea, Kennedyomorpha, Luiseiidae, Oboraneuridae, Permepallagidae, Progoneuridae, Protomyrmeleontoidea

Subtaxa: Bechlya

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve (BMB collection) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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