Alternative spelling: Aeschnidae
Parent taxon: Aeshnoidea according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Hong 1982, Jarzembowski 1988, Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993, Petrulevičius et al. 2010, Tillyard 1918 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxon: Telephlebiidae
Subtaxa: Aeshna dido Aeshninae Basiaeschna Brachytroninae Eoshna Epiaeschna Gynacanthinae Huncoaeshna Idemlinea Kvacekia Merlax Oplonaeschna vectensis Palaeaeschna Ypshna
Type: Aeshna
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (2 collections), Slovakia (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), China (5), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Germany (4), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (3), France (8), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (2), Spain (1)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Colorado, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), France (1)
• Cretaceous of China (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3)
Total: 74 collections including 105 occurrences