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

Belongs to Mesosticta according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2018

See also Huang et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Mesosticta davidattenboroughi, Mesosticta electronica

Type specimen: NIGP 161758, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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