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Petrolestinae
Taxonomy
Petrolestinae was named by Cockerell (1927). Its type is Petrolestes.
It was reranked as the tribe Petrolestini by Bechly (2007), Garrouste and Nel (2015) and Zheng et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Lestidae by Cockerell (1927) and Nel (1986); to Zygoptera by Nel and Paicheler (1994); to Dysagrioninae by Bechly (2007) and Garrouste and Nel (2015); to Dysagrioninae by Zheng et al. (2016); and to Dysagrionidae by Huang et al. (2017) and Archibald et al. (2021).
It was reranked as the tribe Petrolestini by Bechly (2007), Garrouste and Nel (2015) and Zheng et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Lestidae by Cockerell (1927) and Nel (1986); to Zygoptera by Nel and Paicheler (1994); to Dysagrioninae by Bechly (2007) and Garrouste and Nel (2015); to Dysagrioninae by Zheng et al. (2016); and to Dysagrionidae by Huang et al. (2017) and Archibald et al. (2021).
Subtaxa
Congqingia, Petrolestes (type genus)
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1927 | Petrolestinae Cockerell p. 81 |
| 1986 | Petrolestinae Nel p. 447 |
| 1992 | Congqingiidae Zhang p. 376 |
| 1993 | Congqingiidae Nel et al. |
| 1994 | Petrolestinae Nel and Paicheler |
| 2007 | Petrolestini Bechly |
| 2015 | Petrolestini Garrouste and Nel p. 355 |
| 2016 | Petrolestini Zheng et al. p. 126 |
| 2017 | Petrolestinae Huang et al. p. 11 |
| 2021 | Petrolestinae Archibald et al. |
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Subfm. †Petrolestinae Cockerell 1927
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G. †Petrolestes Cockerell 1927
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†Petrolestes hendersoni Cockerell 1927
†Petrolestes messelensis Garrouste and Nel 2015
Invalid names: Congqingiini Zhang 1992 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. F. Zhang 1992 (Congqingiidae) | Anisozygoptera v,;jth a stout body. and of SIll :111 ,izt~ : head
not tran s\'ersely elongate but nearly semicircular: eyes large, not as laferal s\\'e l- ling~ and separated by less than their width in dor,a l \' iell, Pronotulll la rge. tr~lJlwe rse ly elongate: synthorax stout. subcircular, 1ll,~sothonL\ wider Ihall IOllg, Abdomen flat and \I'ide. at least with basal three segmellls rather short and \l iLie, the third one slightly longer than wide and somewhat narrower than s~' nth ora\, Fore- and hind\\'ings closely simil:lI' in shape and venation but quadri - I(!t ~r:li (q) diffe l'ing in ~hape, base of wings gradually narrowed, not s[alked: 11odu~ (i\) di~t in cI. I )' ing less than two-fifths of length of wing from base: on ly (1\'0 antenodal s (.-\n): IR, and R4+~ ;1risi 11g somewhat nearer to arcu lus (Arc) than to subnocius (S nl: fork of Rc';- _1 \\ell beyond Sn: origin of Arc proximal 10 k\'el of the second ,'\n and f:l l1her from N than from the base of the wing: q closed basally. tf' bralld; of A ( 1:\) long. reaching margin beyond mid posirion of Iving: anal field of f()re - and hinc!l\-ings narrO\\ but the former just a little narrower than the liltter. and \\i[ h a single row of cells basally and two rows termim,lily, |
Measurements
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Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aptian | China (Shandong) | Congqingia rhora (106313) | |
| Bridgerian | USA (Colorado) | Petrolestes hendersoni (151575) | |
| MP 11 | Germany (Hessen) | Petrolestes messelensis (120798) | |
| Uintan | USA (Colorado) | Petrolestes hendersoni (173817) |