Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae
Parent taxon: Libellulida according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1921, Lewis 1969, Nel and Paicheler 1993 and Zessin et al. 2008
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Caussanelia Jeanlegrandia Leucorrhininae Libellula eusebioi Libellula minuscula Libellulinae Miorhodopygia Molertrum Onychothemis Oryctodiplax Palaeolibellula Pantaliinae Pantalinae Prorhyothemis Sloveniatrum Sympetrinae Tetrathemistinae Trithemistinae
Type: Libellula
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene of India (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (2), Germany (4), Italy (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California)
• Oligocene of France (12), Germany (4)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 55 collections including 88 occurrences