Parent taxon: Anisoptera according to A. Nel and X. Martínez-Delclòs 1993
See also Gentilini 1992 and Nel et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Aeschna eudore, Aeschna parkinsoni, Aeschnidioidea, Cercus, Cercus clavus, Cordulia scheuchzeri, Cratopetaliidae, Cymatophlebia mongolica, Dissurus, Dissurus liauyuanensis, Dissurus qinquanensis, Epigomphidae, Euanisoptera, Hageniidae, Henrotayiidae, Ictinogomphus fur, Ixtahua, Juragomphidae, Kazakhophlebiella, Libanoaeshnidae, Libellula calypso, Libellula doris, Libellula eurynome, Libellula melobasis, Libellula perse, Libellula thetis, Libellula thoe, Magnathemidae, Megaphlebiidae, Miopetalura orientalis, Necrogomphus, Nothomacromiidae, Petalurida, Pritykiniella, Proterogomphidae, Stenogomphus scudderi
Subtaxa: Condalia Libellula cassandra Libellula ceres Macromiidae Synthemistidae
Type: Libellula
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
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