Subfamily Trithemistinae Tillyard 1917 (common skimmer)
Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae
Parent taxon: Libellulidae according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1993
Sister taxa: Caussanelia, Jeanlegrandia, Leucorrhininae, Libellula eusebioi, Libellula minuscula, Libellulinae, Miorhodopygia, Molertrum, Onychothemis, Oryctodiplax, Palaeolibellula, Pantaliinae, Pantalinae, Prorhyothemis, Sloveniatrum, Sympetrinae, Tetrathemistinae
Subtaxa: Trithemis
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Bellver-en-Cerdaña (MNHN collection) (Miocene of Spain)