Insecta - Odonata - Perilestidae

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: Lestoidea according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Cerdanyagrion, Cretalestes, Daemhippus, Eolestidae, Lestidae, Lutetialestes, Platycnemis cincuneguii, Pseudolestidae, Synlestidae

Subtaxa: Palaeoperilestes

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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