†subfamily Burmadysagrioninae Zheng et al. 2016 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: D. R. Zheng, B. Wang, and A. Nel. 2016. Taxonomic names, in Burmadysagrioninae, a new subfamily (Odonata: Zygoptera: Dysagrionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 67:126-132

Parent taxon: Zygoptera according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2021

See also Zheng et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Agrion exhaustum, Agrion hecticum, Agrion mysis, Agrion thais, Andrephlebia, Caloptera, Dinosamarura, Eopodagrion, Euzygoptera, Furagrion, Gasophlebia, Gomphus resinatus, Hemiphlebioidea, Italolestes, Megalestes anglicus, Mesomegaloprepidae, Platystictoidea, Podagrion abortivum, Pulchrairina, Samarura, Santanagrion, Steleopteridae, Steropoides, Valerea, Whetwhetaksidae, Dysagrionidae, Sieblosiidae

Subtaxa: Burmadysagrion

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Type: Burmadysagrion

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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