Diceratobasis Kennedy 1920 (narrow-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Coenagrionidae

Full reference: C. H. Kennedy. 1920. Forty-two hitherto unrecognized genera and subgenera of Zygoptera. The Ohio Journal of Science 21:83-88

Parent taxon: Coenagrionidae according to G. O. Poinar 1996

Sister taxa: Agriocnemis, Amphiagrion, Argiinae, Coenagrion, Enallagma, Enallagma oligocena, Hesperagrion, Ischnurinae, Marado, Nehalennia, Neoerythromma

Subtaxa: Diceratobasis worki

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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