Subfamily Leucorrhininae Tillyard and Fraser 1940 (common skimmer)
Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae
Parent taxon: Libellulidae according to A. Nel et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Caussanelia, Jeanlegrandia, Libellula eusebioi, Libellula minuscula, Libellulinae, Miorhodopygia, Molertrum, Onychothemis, Oryctodiplax, Palaeolibellula, Pantaliinae, Pantalinae, Prorhyothemis, Sloveniatrum, Sympetrinae, Tetrathemistinae, Trithemistinae
Subtaxa: Celithemis
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
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