Insecta - Odonata - Platystictidae

Full reference: D. R. Zheng, B. Wang, A. Nel, E. A. Jarzembowski, H. C. Zhang and S. C. Chang. 2017. Mesostictinae subfam. nov., an archaic group of platystictid damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1-8

Parent taxon: Platystictidae according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Mesosticta

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Type: Mesosticta

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

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

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