Mesosticta Huang et al. 2015 (shadowdamsel)

Insecta - Odonata - Platystictidae

Full reference: D. Y. Huang, D. Azar, C. Y. Cai and A. Nel. 2015. New damselfly genera in the Cretaceous Burmese amber attributable to the Platystictidae and Platycnemididae Disparoneurinae (Odonata: Zygoptera). Cretaceous Research 56:237-243

Parent taxon: Mesostictinae according to M. D. Monferran et al. 2025

See also Huang et al. 2015, Nel et al. 2024, Zheng et al. 2017 and Zheng et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Mesosticta additicta Mesosticta burmatica Mesosticta davidattenboroughi Mesosticta electronica Mesosticta garciavallsi

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Type: Mesosticta burmatica

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections including 5 occurrences

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