Anisoptera et eorum cognati sunt grex antiquus. Veterrima fossilia Protodonata repraesentant, ex Carbonifero superiori, abhinc annorum 326 million in Europa, qui grex Meganeuropsim permianam comprehendit, maximum insectum quod umquam vixit, ex Permiano ineunte, cui erat latitudo alarum circiter 750 millimetra.[3]
Anisoptera
Gomphidae
Austropetaliidae
Aeshnoidea
Petaluridae
Macromiidae
Libelluloidea
Neopetaliidae
Cordulegastridae
Libellulidae
"Corduliidae" [non cladus]
Synthemistidae
Chlorogomphidae
Distributio et diversitas
Circiter 3012 species anisopterorum anno 2010 descriptae sunt, quae in 348 genera in 11 familiis digerebantur. Distributio diversitatis intra regiones biogeographicas infra perscribuntur.[4]
Meganeura monyi, praegrandis Carboniferi superioris proavus, latitudinem alarum circiter 680 millimetra attigit.[5] Museum Tolosanum.Mesurupetala, anisopterum ex Iurassico exeunte (aevo Tithoniano) in calce generis Solnhofen in Germania.Nonnullae Pantalae flavescentes per earum migrationem.
↑Suhling, F.; Sahlén, G.; Gorb, S.; Kalkman, V.J.; Dijkstra, K-D.B.; van Tol, J. (2015). "Order Odonata". In Thorp, James; Rogers, D. Christopher. Ecology and general biology. Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates (4 ed.). Academic Press. pp. 893–932. ISBN9780123850263.
Corbet, Phillip S. 1999.Dragonflies: Behavior and Ecology of Odonata. Ithacae Novi Eboraci: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2592-9.
Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. 2006. Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9531399-4-1.
Garrison, Rosser W., Natalia von Ellenrieder, et Jerry A. Louton. Damselfly genera of the New World: an illustrated and annotated key to the Zygoptera. Baltimorae Terrae Mariae: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801896705, ISBN 0801896703.
Selys-Longchamps, Edmond de. 1854. Monographie des caloptérygines. Bruxellis et Lipsiae: C. Muquardt. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.60461. Editio interretialis.
Trueman, John W. H., et Richard J. Rowe. 2009. "Odonata." Tree of Life.
Wildermuth, H., Y. Gonseth, et A. Maibach. 2005. "Odonata: Die Libellen der Schweiz." Fauna Helvetica 12. ISBN 2-88414-024-7.