†subfamily Dysagrioninae Cockerell 1908 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Dysagrionidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1908. Fossil Insects from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:59-69

Parent taxon: Dysagrionidae according to J. L. Ware et al. 2025

See also Archibald et al. 2021, Archibald and Cannings 2022, Huang et al. 2017, Zheng et al. 2017, Zheng et al. 2016 and Zheng et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Allenbya, Dysagrionites, Menatagrion, Paradysagrion, Petrolestinae, Stenodiafanus, Thanetophilosina, Valerea

Subtaxa: Dysagrion Dysagrionini Electrophenacolestes Okanagrion Okanopteryx Phenacolestes Primorilestes Stolleagrion Tenebragrion

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Type: Dysagrion

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Bulgaria (1 collection), Croatia (1)

• Eocene of Canada (5: British Columbia), Denmark (2), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Colorado, Washington, Wyoming)

Total: 23 collections including 48 occurrences

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