†Mesosticta Huang et al. 2015 (shadowdamsel)
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Insecta - Odonata - Platystictidae
Full reference: D. Y. Huang, D. Azar, C. Y. Cai and A. Nel. 2015. New damselfly genera in the Cretaceous Burmese amber attributable to the Platystictidae and Platycnemididae Disparoneurinae (Odonata: Zygoptera). Cretaceous Research 56:237-243
Parent taxon: Mesostictinae according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2017
See also Huang et al. 2015 and Zheng et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Mesosticta burmatica Mesosticta davidattenboroughi Mesosticta electronica
Type: Mesosticta burmatica
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
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