Epiophlebia

Epiophlebia
Epiophlebia superstes adult
Epiophlebia laidlawi naiad
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Suborder: Epiprocta
Infraorder: Epiophlebioptera
Bechly, 1996
Family: Epiophlebiidae
Muttkowski, 1910
Genus: Epiophlebia
Calvert, 1903
Species

Epiophlebia is a genus of damsel-dragonfly native to the Indian subcontinent, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. It is the only living genus of Odonata to neither be a dragonfly nor a damselfly. It is the sole member of the family Epiophlebiidae, which is itself the sole living representative of the infraorder Epiophlebioptera. It was historically regarded and still often regarded by neontologists as being of the suborder "Anisozygoptera", but the traditional classification of this group including fossil species has been shown to be an unnatural paraphyletic assemblage.