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
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)