Paradysagrion Archibald and Cannings 2024 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Dysagrionidae

Full reference: S. B. Archibald and R. A. Cannings. 2024. Three new Odonata species (cf. Cephalozygoptera and cf. Dysagrionidae) from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, United States of America. The Canadian Entomologist 156(e35):1-9

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

See also Archibald and Cannings 2024

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

Subtaxa: Paradysagrion sosbyae

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Type: Paradysagrion sosbyae

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Republic, locality B4131 (Eocene of Washington)

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