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Coenagrionidae (narrow-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Coenagrionidae

Taxonomy

Coenagrionidae was named by Kirby (1890). It is extant.

It was assigned to Odonata by Zhang (1989); to Zygoptera by Carpenter (1992); and to Coenagrionoidea by Bechly (2000) and Bechly (2007).

Subtaxa

Agriocnemis, Amphiagrion, Argiinae, Coenagrion, Diceratobasis, Enallagma (syn. Sobobapteron), Enallagma oligocena, Hesperagrion, Ischnurinae, Marado, Nehalennia, Neoerythromma

Synonyms

Agrionidae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant.

It was replaced with Coenagrionidae by Bechly (2007).

It was assigned to Odonata by Cockerell (1908), Cockerell (1909) and Cockerell (1921).
Enallagma oligocena was named by Cockerell and Andrews (1916). Its type specimen is BMNH I.8631, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Nel and Fleck (2014).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1815	Agrionidae Leach
1890	Coenagrionidae Kirby p. 119
1908	Agrionidae Cockerell
1909	Agrionidae Cockerell p. 172
1916	Enallagma oligocena Cockerell and Andrews p. 90 fig. 6,7
1921	Agrionidae Cockerell
1989	Coenagrionidae Zhang p. 27
1992	Coenagrionidae Carpenter p. 85
2000	Coenagrionidae Bechly
2007	Coenagrionidae Bechly

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Odonatoptera	Martynov 1932
—	Palaeodonatoptera
—	Plesiodonatoptera
—	Apodonatoptera

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paneodonatoptera
—	Neodonatoptera
—	Euodonatoptera
—	Odonatoclada	Bechly 1999
—	Nodialata
—	Discoidalia
—	Stigmoptera
—	Lobodonata
—	Panodonata
order	Odonata
suborder	Zygoptera	Selys-Longchamps 1854
—	Euzygoptera
—	Coenagrionomorpha
—	Coenagrioniformia
—	Coenagrionida
superfamily	Coenagrionoidea
family	Coenagrionidae
family	Coenagrionidae

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. Coenagrionidae Kirby 1890 [narrow-winged damselfly]

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G. Agriocnemis Selys 1860 [wisp]

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Agriocnemis lacteola Selys 1877

G. Amphiagrion Selys-Longchamps 1876

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†Amphiagrion praevolans Cockerell 1907

Subfm. Argiinae Tillyard 1917

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G. Argia Rambur 1842

G. Coenagrion Kirby 1890