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Platycnemididae (white-legged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Platycnemididae

Taxonomy
Platycnemididae was named by Jacobson and Bianchi (1905). It is extant.

It was assigned to Zygoptera by Poinar et al. (2010); and to Coenagrionoidea by Zheng et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Platycnemididae Jacobson and Bianchi
2010Platycnemididae Poinar et al. p. 16
2017Platycnemididae Zheng et al. p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
—Euzygoptera
—Coenagrionomorpha
—Coenagrioniformia
—Coenagrionida
superfamilyCoenagrionoidea
familyPlatycnemididaeJacobson and Bianchi 1905
familyPlatycnemididaeJacobson and Bianchi 1905

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Platycnemididae Jacobson and Bianchi 1905 [white-legged damselfly]
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Subfm. Calicneminae Fraser 1957
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G. Coeliccia Kirby 1890
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Invalid names: Trichocnemis Selys-Longchamps 1857 [replaced]
Subfm. Disparoneurinae Fraser 1957
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G. †Cretadisparoneura Huang et al. 2015
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†Cretadisparoneura hongi Huang et al. 2015
Subfm. †Palaeodisparoneurinae Poinar et al. 2010
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G. †Palaeodisparoneura Poinar et al. 2010
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†Palaeodisparoneura burmanica Poinar et al. 2010
†Palaeodisparoneura cretacica Zheng et al. 2017
G. †Yijenplatycnemis Zheng et al. 2017
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†Yijenplatycnemis huangi Zheng et al. 2017
G. Platycnemis Charpentier 1840
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†Platycnemis antiqua Pictet 1848
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitino
Form: roller-shapedo
Environment: freshwater, terrestrialo
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: volanto
Diet: carnivoreo
Diet 2: insectivoreo
Vision: well-developedo
Dispersal: watero
Created: 2011-03-07 03:41:10
Modified: 2011-03-06 10:41:10
Source: o = order
Reference: Ren and Guo 1996

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Chattian or 99.60000 to 23.03000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Cretadisparoneura hongi, Yijenplatycnemis huangi, Palaeodisparoneura cretacica (161726) Yijenplatycnemis huangi (123053 167760)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar (Kachin) Palaeodisparoneura burmanica (123429)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Platycnemis antiqua (149477)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Agrion antiquum (109625)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Platycnemididae indet. (122501)