Amphiagrion Selys-Longchamps 1876 (narrow-winged damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Coenagrionidae

Full reference: M. E. Selys-Longchamps. 1876. Synopsis des Agrionines (suite de la 5me légion: Agrion). Le grand genre Agrion. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Deuxième Série 41:247-322

Parent taxon: Coenagrionidae according to A. Nel 2022

Sister taxa: Agriocnemis, Argiinae, Coenagrion, Diceratobasis, Enallagma, Enallagma oligocena, Hesperagrion, Ischnurinae, Marado, Nehalennia, Neoerythromma

Subtaxa: Amphiagrion praevolans

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Florissant, Station 14 (Eocene of Colorado)

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