Invalid subtaxa: Euphaea areolata Hagen 1862 [nomen dubium], Euphaea filosa Hagen 1862 [nomen dubium], Libellula decapitata Hagen 1850 [nomen dubium], Mesonetopsis Ping 1935 [nomen dubium], Mesonetopsis zeni Ping 1935 [nomen dubium], Pseudoeuphaea Handlirsch 1906 [nomen dubium], Pseudoeuphaea areolata Hagen 1862 [nomen dubium], Pseudoeuphaea falsificata Handlirsch 1906 [nomen dubium], Pseudoeuphaea filosa Hagen 1862 [nomen dubium], Pseudoeuphaea obscura Handlirsch 1906 [nomen dubium], Triassophlebia stigmatica Tillyard 1922 [nomen dubium]
Parent taxon: Panodonata according to G. Bechly 2007
Sister taxon: Tarsophlebiidae
Subtaxa: Anisoptera, Anisozygoptera, Antitaxineura, Epiproctophora, Heterothemis, Idionychidae, Kobdoneura, Libellulina, Mesomantidiidae, Orthaeschnites, Oryctothemis, Peraphlebia, Perissophlebia, Proaeschna, Sogdothemis, Somatochlora, Syrrhoe, Triassophlebia, Trichocnemis, Zygoptera
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore