Odonatoptera

Anax imperator (Odonata)

Meganeura monyi, paratype (Meganisoptera)

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
Cladi: †Eugeroptera – Palaeodonatoptera
[Source: Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez (2016)]

Overview of ordines

Odonata – †Argentinoptera – †"Eomeganisoptera" – †Eugeroptera – †Geroptera – †Kukaloptera – †Meganisoptera – †Protanisoptera – †"Protozygoptera" – †Triadophlebiomorpha – †Triadotypomorpha

Familiae: †Camptotaxineuridae – †Campylopteridae – †Enigmapteridae – †Haidilaozhenidae – †Huangiopteridae – †Lapeyriidae – †Mesophlebiidae – †Osnabruggialidae – †Saxonagrionidae – †Tarsophlebiidae
[Source: Bechly (1996); Nel et al. (2002, 2012, 2019); Nel & Piney (2022); Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez (2016); Tierney et al. (2020); Zessin, Brauckmann & Gröning (2021); Yang, Ren & Béthoux (2023)]

secundum Grimaldi & Engel (2005)

Holodonata – †Geroptera
[list of cladi adapted from Grimaldi & Engel (2005: 147, table 4.1)]

Name

Odonatoptera Lameere, 1900

Synonymy

• Odonatoptères Lameere, 1900: 52

References

Primary references

• Lameere, A.A. 1900. Manuel de la faune de Belgique. Tome II, Insects inférieurs. Bruxelles, H. Lamertin, 857 pp. BHL.

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.  [not seen]
• Bechly, G., Brauckmann, C., Zessin, W. & Gröning, E. 2001. New results concerning the morphology of the most ancient dragonflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera) from the Namurian of Hagen-Vorhalle (Germany). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 39(4): 209–226. DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0469.2001.00165.x . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0. limited preview on Google Books. Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Béthoux, O., Bechly, G., Martínez-Delclòs, X. & Papier, F. 2002 ("2001"). The Permo-Triassic Odonatoptera of the ‘protodonate’ grade (Insecta: Odonatoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 37(4): 501–525. Gallica, Academia.edu, ResearchGate . Reference page.  [Odonatoptera treated as order]
• Nel, A., Bechly, G., Prokop, J., Béthoux, O. & Fleck, G. 2012. Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the “protozygopteran” grade. Journal of Paleontology 86(1): 81–104. DOI: 10.1666/11-020.1 . Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Roques, P., Prokop, J. & Garrouste, R. 2019 (Online 2018). A new, extraordinary ‘damselfly-like’ Odonatoptera from the Pennsylvanian of the Avion locality in Pas-de-Calais, France (Insecta: ‘Exopterygota’). Alcheringa 43(2): 241–245. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2018.1489561 . Reference page. 
• Nel, A. & Piney, B. 2022. The Odonatoptera: a clade that contains 99% of Odonata fossil diversity. Pp. 279–294. In: Córdoba-Aguilar, A., Beatty, C. & Bried, J. (eds.) Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-289862-3 (print), ISBN 978-0-19-192490-3 (online). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898623.003.0020 . Reference page. 
• Petrulevičius, J.F. & Gutiérrez, P.R. 2016. New basal Odonatoptera (Insecta) from the lower Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 16: 341–358. PDF. Reference page. 
• Tierney, A., Deregnaucourt, I., Anderson, J.M., Tierney, P., Wappler, T. & Béthoux, O. 2020. The Triassic Mesophlebiidae, a little closer to the crown of the Odonata (Insecta) than other ‘triassolestids.’ Alcheringa 44(2): 279–285. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2020.1730964 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Yang, N., Ren, D. & Béthoux, O. 2023. Little bits of dragonfly history repeating exemplified by a new Pennsylvanian family. Royal Society Open Science 10: 230904. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230904 . Reference page. 
• Zessin, W., Brauckmann, C. & Gröning, E. 2011. Rasnitsynala sigambrorum gen. et sp. n., a small odonatopterid (“Eomeganisoptera”, “Erasipteridae”) from the early late Carboniferous of Hagen-Vorhalle (Germany). ZooKeys 130: 57–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.130.1458 . Reference page. 
• Zessin, W., Brauckmann, C. & Gröning, E. 2021. A new insect (probably basal Odonatoptera) from the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) of the Piesberg Fossil-Lagerstätte, Osnabrück, Germany. Palaeoentomology 4(6): 532–536. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.2 . Plazi. Reference page. 

Links

• Bechly, G. 2008. Phylogenetic Systematics of Odonata.