Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Odonatoptera
Cladus: Holodonata
Ordo: Odonata
Subordo: Epiprocta
Infraordo: Anisoptera
Superfamiliae: Aeshnoidea – Cordulegastroidea – Libelluloidea
Familiae incertae sedis: †Aeschnidiidae – †Nannogomphidae – †Proterogomphidae
Cladus: Aeshnoptera

Name

Anisoptera Sélys-Longch., 1854

References

• Bechly, G. & Ueda, K. 2002. The first fossil record and first New World record for the dragonfly clade Chlorogomphida (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Araripechlorogomphidae n. fam.) from the Crato Limestone (Lower Cretaceous, Brazil). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (B), (328).

• Blanke, A., Greve, C., Mokso, M. Beckmann, F. & Misof, B. 2013. An updated phylogeny of Anisoptera including formal convergence analysis of morphological characters. Systematic entomology 38(3): 474–490. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12012 Reference page. 

• Johnson, L., Mantle, B.L., Gardner, J.L. & Backwell, P.R.Y. 2013. Morphometric measurements of dragonfly wings: the accuracy of pinned, scanned and detached measurement methods. ZooKeys 276: 77–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.276.4207 Reference page. 

• Pinkert, S., Bechly, G. & Nel, A. 2017. First record of hawker dragonflies from Eocene Baltic amber (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphaeschnidae). Zootaxa 4272(2): 263–275. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.7. Reference page. 
• Vernoux, J., Huang, D.-y., Jarzembowski, E.A. & Nel, A. 2010. The Proterogomphidae: a worldwide Mesozoic family of gomphid dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphides). Cretaceous research 31: 94–100. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.010

Vernacular names

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