Anisoptera

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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
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Superordo: Odonatoptera
Ordo: Odonata
Subordo: Anisoptera
Superfamiliae: Aeshnoidea – Cordulegastroidea – Gomphoidea – Libelluloidea – Petaluroidea
Familiae incertae sedis: †Cretapetaluridae – †Nannogomphidae – †Proterogomphidae

secundum Bechly, 1996

Cladus: Euanisoptera – Petalurida

Name

Anisoptera Selys, 1854

References

Primary references

Selys Longchamps, E. & Hagen, H.A. 1854. Monographie des caloptérygines. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 9: 1–291, pl. 1–14. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Bechly, G. 1996. Morphologische Untersuchungen am Flugelgeader der rezenten Libellen und deren Stammgruppenvertreter (Insecta; Pterygota; Odonata) unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der phylogenetischen Systematik und des Grundplanes der Odonata. Petalura Special Volume 2: 402 pp, 3 tabls, 111 figs. Reference page.
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.
Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Bechly, G., Bybee, S.M., Dow, R.A., Dumont, H.J., Fleck, G., Garrison, R.W., Hämäläinen, M., Kalkman, V.J., Karube, H., May, M.L., Orr, A.G., Paulson, D.R., Rehn, A.C., Theischinger, G., Trueman, J.W.H., van Tol, J., von Ellenrieder, N. & Ware, J. 2013. The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2013. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 36–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.9 . 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

Basa Bali: Capung
беларуская: Разнакрылыя
Deutsch: Großlibellen
English: Dragonflies
suomi: Erilaissiipiset
hts: Tinditindi
magyar: Egyenlőtlen szárnyú szitakötők
Bahasa Indonesia: Capung
日本語: トンボ亜目（不均翅亜目）
한국어: 잠자리아목
Nederlands: Echte libellen
Diné bizaad: Tániilʼáí
ไทย: แมลงปอ
Türkçe: Yusufçuk
中文: 差翅下目

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