Nehalennia Selys-Longchamps 1850 (narrow-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Coenagrionidae

Full reference: E. Selys-Longchamps. 1850. Revue des odonates ou libellules d'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 6:1-408

Parent taxon: Coenagrionidae according to A. J. Ross et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Agriocnemis, Amphiagrion, Argiinae, Coenagrion, Diceratobasis, Enallagma, Enallagma oligocena, Hesperagrion, Ischnurinae, Marado, Neoerythromma

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (IHNFG collection) (Miocene of Mexico)

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