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Mesophlebia
Taxonomy
Mesophlebia was named by Tillyard (1916). Its type is Mesophlebia antinodalis. It is the type genus of Mesophlebiidae.
It was assigned to Odonata by Carpenter (1992); to Mesophlebiinae by Bechly (1997); to Triassolestidae by Nel et al. (2002); and to Mesophlebiidae by Tillyard (1922), Tillyard (1923), Cowley (1942), Nel et al. (1993), Nel and Paicheler (1994) and Tierney et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Odonata by Carpenter (1992); to Mesophlebiinae by Bechly (1997); to Triassolestidae by Nel et al. (2002); and to Mesophlebiidae by Tillyard (1922), Tillyard (1923), Cowley (1942), Nel et al. (1993), Nel and Paicheler (1994) and Tierney et al. (2020).
Species
M. antinodalis (syn. M. tillyardi) (type species), M. elegans
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1916 | Mesophlebia Tillyard p. 24 |
| 1922 | Mesophlebia Tillyard |
| 1923 | Mesophlebia Tillyard |
| 1942 | Mesophlebia Cowley p. 63 |
| 1992 | Mesophlebia Carpenter p. 89 |
| 1993 | Mesophlebia Nel et al. |
| 1994 | Mesophlebia Nel and Paicheler p. 330 |
| 1997 | Mesophlebia Bechly |
| 2002 | Mesophlebia Nel et al. p. 192 |
| 2020 | Mesophlebia Tierney et al. p. 282 |
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G. †Mesophlebia Tillyard 1916
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†Mesophlebia antinodalis Tillyard 1916
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Invalid names: Mesophlebia tillyardi Handlirsch 1939 [synonym]
†Mesophlebia elegans Deregnaucourt et al. 2020
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available