Mesonetopsis Ping 1935 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: C. Ping. 1935. On four fossil insects from Sinkiang. The Chinese Journal of Zoology 1:107-115

Parent taxon: Odonata according to F. M. Carpenter 1992

See also Demoulin 1954 and Ping 1935

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

Subtaxa: Mesonetopsis zeni

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Maiyohkow, Turfan (Jurassic of China)

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