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Suborder Zygoptera Selys-Longchamps 1854 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Synonym: Cephalozygoptera Archibald et al. 2021

Parent taxon: Odonata according to T. J. Simonsen et al. 2022

See also Archibald et al. 2021, Bechly 2000, Bechly 2007, Carpenter 1992, Nel and Jouault 2022, Nel and Zheng 2021, Tillyard 1918 and Vega et al. 2006

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

Subtaxa: Agrion exhaustum Agrion hecticum Agrion mysis Agrion thais Andrephlebia Burmadysagrionidae Caloptera Dinosamarura Dysagrionidae Eopodagrion Euzygoptera Furagrion Gasophlebia Gomphus resinatus Hemiphlebioidea Italolestes Megalestes anglicus Mesomegaloprepidae Platystictoidea Podagrion abortivum Pulchrairina Samarura Santanagrion Shundeagrionidae Sieblosiidae Steleopteridae Steropoides Valerea Whetwhetaksidae

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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