Parent taxon: Gomphida according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Cowley 1942, Handlirsch 1906 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aeschna perampla Auroradraco Austrogomphinae Diastatomma Erpetogomphus Gomphidae Gomphinae Gomphoides occulta Huaxiagomphus Ilerdaegomphus Jibeigomphus Lanthus wuluogongensis Libellula valga Lindeniinae Liogomphus Lithogomphus Octogomphinae Pheugothemis Sieboldius
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), China (2), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Turkey (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), China (4), Myanmar (1), Spain (3)
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 31 collections including 34 occurrences