Family Platystictidae Kennedy 1920 (shadowdamsel)

Insecta - Odonata - Platystictidae

Full reference: C. H. Kennedy. 1920. The phylogeny of the zygopterous dragonflies as based on the evidence of the penes. The Ohio Journal of Science 21:19-29

Parent taxon: Platystictoidea according to A. Nel et al. 2024

See also Huang et al. 2015 and Zheng et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Mesostictinae

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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